Tommeginne language

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Tommeginne
Northern Tasmanian
RegionNorth-central coast of Tasmania
EthnicityNorthern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct 19th century
Northern–Western Tasmanian?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xpv
Glottolog None
port1278   included
AIATSIS [1] T1

Northern Tasmanian, or Tommeginne (Tommeeginnee), is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern. [2]

Northern Tasmanian is attested from word lists collected on Flinders Island by Joseph Milligan and published in 1857 & 1859. One, labeled "northwest tribes", contains 268[ dubious – discuss ] words; the other, labeled "western tribes", contains 369. [3]

References

  1. ↑ T1 Tommeginne at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ↑ Bowern, Claire (2012-11-22). "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.
  3. ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
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