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<h2 id="language-revival">Language revival</h2> <p>With only 20 fluent speakers left by 2018,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> the Pertame Project is seeking to retain and revive the language, headed by Pertame elder Christobel Swan.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>As of 2020<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pertame_language&action=edit">[update]</a>, Pertame is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the <a href="/facts/Department_of_Communications_and_the_Arts/5jqkTFvB">Department of Communications and the Arts</a>. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="speakers">Speakers</h2> <p>Renowned artist <a href="/facts/Erlikilyika/z9zoJ17z">Erlikilyika</a> (Jim Kite) was a Pertame speaker.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Lower Arrernte". Mobile Language Team. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2019. <a href="http://www.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/languages/lower_arrernte" target="_blank">http://www.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/languages/lower_arrernte</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"To save a dying language". Alice Springs News Online. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019. <a href="http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/05/23/to-save-a-dying-language/" target="_blank">http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2018/05/23/to-save-a-dying-language/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Pertame Project". Call for Australian languages and linguistics. Retrieved 9 June 2019. <a href="https://call.batchelor.edu.au/project/pertame-southern-arrernte/" target="_blank">https://call.batchelor.edu.au/project/pertame-southern-arrernte/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Retrieved 13 January 2020. <a href="https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/projects/plsp" target="_blank">https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/projects/plsp</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Gibson, Jason (July 2015). "Central Australian Songs: A History and Reinterpretation of their Distribution through the Earliest Recordings". Oceania. 85 (2): 165–182. doi:10.1002/ocea.5084. ISSN 0029-8077. <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5084" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5084</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Mulvaney, D. J., "Erlikilyika (1865–1930)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 14 September 2024 <a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/erlikilyika-12904" target="_blank">https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/erlikilyika-12904</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>