Lhotsky/Blackhouse Tasmanian language

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(Lhotsky/Blackhouse)
RegionUnidentified location in northeastern Tasmania
EthnicityUnidentified tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct 19th century
Northeastern Tasmanian
  • (Lhotsky/Blackhouse)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None

"Lhotsky/Blackhouse" is a label for an unnamed aboriginal Tasmanian language identified in the reconstructions of Claire Bowern. [1] It was presumably spoken somewhere in the northeast of Tasmania, but the original location of the speakers was not recorded.

The language has no name; "Lhotsky/Blackhouse" is a label based on the names of people associated with various word lists. Bowern finds several word lists that attest to this previously unidentified language: The "eastern" list of Jorgen Jorgenson (in one case published in 1846), 345 words, along with a second list of 68 words; manuscripts of James Backhouse and G.W. Walker, 148 words combined; and a 105-word list of Alexander McGeary, published by John Lhotsky in 1839. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Bowern, Claire (22 November 2012). "The riddle of Tasmanian languages". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1747): 4590–4595. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842. ISSN   0962-8452. PMC   3479735 . PMID   23015621.