| (Lhotsky/Blackhouse) | |
| Region: | Unidentified location in northeastern Tasmania |
| Ethnicity: | Unidentified tribe of Tasmanians |
| Extinct: | 19th century |
| Familycolor: | australian |
| Fam1: | Northeastern Tasmanian |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | none |
"Lhotsky/Blackhouse" is an aboriginal Tasmanian language identified in the reconstructions of Claire Bowern.[1] It was presumably spoken somewhere in the northeast of Tasmania, but the original location of the speakers was not recorded.
The language has no name; "Lhotsky/Blackhouse" is a label based on the names of people associated with various word lists. Bowern finds several word lists that attest to this previously unidentified language: The "eastern" list of Jorgen Jorgenson (in one case published in 1846), 345 words, along with a second list of 68 words; manuscripts of James Backhouse and G.W. Walker, 148 words combined; and a 105-word list of Alexander McGeary, published by John Lhotsky in 1839.[2]