Paredarerme language explained

Paredarerme
Also Known As:Oyster Bay
Region:central and central-eastern Tasmania
Ethnicity:Oyster Bay and Big River tribes of Tasmanians
Extinct:19th century
Familycolor:australian
Fam1:Eastern Tasmanian
Fam2:Oyster Bay languages
Dia1:Olyster Bay lingua franca? (Tasmanian creole mainly with elements of that language[1])
Dia2:Big River dialect
Dia3:Bass Strait pidgin? (may have been related to the lingua fanca)
Iso3:xpd
Aiatsis:T2
Aiatsisname:Oyster Bay
Aiatsis2:T8
Aiatsisname2:Big River
Glotto:none
Glotto2:oyst1235
Glottoname2:(Oyster Bay + Little Swanport)
Glottorefname2:Oyster Bay-Big River-Little Swanport

Paredarerme (also known as Paytirami, Poredareme or Oyster Bay Tasmanian) is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[2] It was spoken along the central eastern coast of the island by the Oyster Bay tribe, and in the interior by the Big River tribe. Records of the Big River dialect, Lairmairrener ("Lemerina"), indicate that it was no more distinct than the vocabularies collected along the coast around Oyster Bay; indeed, Little Swanport appears to have been a separate language.

Big River Tasmanian is attested in a list of 268 words collected by George Augustus Robinson. Coastal vocabularies include the Oyster Bay list of Robinson (357 words), and a second collected by Joseph Milligan of 1,040 words published in 1857 and 1859. The last is the longest vocabulary of any variety of Tasmanian.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia. 9780855752415. Walsh. Michael. Yallop. Colin. 1993.
  2. Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590 - 4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
  3. Bowern (2012), supplement