Port Sorell language

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Port Sorell
Port Sorell Tasmanian
RegionNorth-central coast of Tasmania
EthnicityNorthern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct 19th century
Northern–Western Tasmanian?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xpl
Glottolog None
port1278   included
AIATSIS [1] T13

Port Sorell is an extinct aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern. [2] It was spoken near Port Sorell, in the center of the north coast, just east of Northern Tasmanian proper. Dixon & Crowley agree that there is unlikely to be a close connection to other varieties of Tasmanian. [3]

Port Sorell Tasmanian is attested from two word lists: One of 268[ dubious – discuss ] words collected by Charles Robinson at Port Sorell, and another of only 77 words, the "Little Jemmie’s" vocabulary collected by George Augustus Robinson. [4]

References

  1. ↑ T13 Port Sorell at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ↑ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
  3. ↑ Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.
  4. ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
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