Norman Tasmanian language

"Norman"
"Norman"
Region	Unidentified location in northeastern Tasmania
Ethnicity	Unidentified tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northeastern Tasmanian "Norman";
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Last updated January 02, 2026

A variety of aboriginal Tasmanian attested in a manuscript nicknamed the "Norman" vocabulary is identified as a distinct language in the reconstructions of Claire Bowern.^[1] The list of 386 words was recorded in Sorell, Tasmania in the 19th century by one Charles Sterling.^[2] The language was presumably spoken somewhere in the northeast of Tasmania, but the original location of the speakers was not recorded.

References

↑ Bowern, Claire (2012). "The riddle of Tasmanian languages". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1747): 4590–4595. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842 . PMC 3479735 . PMID 23015621.
↑ Bowern (2012), supplement

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

[2] Bowern (2012), supplement

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