Tommeginne language

Tommeginne
Tommeginne
Northern Tasmanian
Region	North-central coast of Tasmania
Ethnicity	Northern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northern–Western Tasmanian? Northern Tasmanian Tommeginne; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpv
Glottolog	None; port1278 included
AIATSIS	T1

Last updated July 22, 2025

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

↑ T1 Tommeginne at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
↑ 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 .
↑ Bowern (2012), supplement

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[AIATSIS-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 .

[3] Bowern (2012), supplement

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