Norman Tasmanian language explained

"Norman"
Region:Unidentified location in northeastern Tasmania
Ethnicity:Unidentified tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct:19th century
Familycolor:australian
Fam1:Northeastern Tasmanian
Iso3:none
Glotto:none

A variety of aboriginal Tasmanian attested in a manuscript nicknamed the "Norman" vocabulary is identified as a distinct language in the reconstructions of Claire Bowern.[1] The list of 386 words was recorded in Sorell, Tasmania in the 19th century by one Charles Sterling.[2] The language was presumably spoken somewhere in the northeast of Tasmania, but the original location of the speakers was not recorded.

Notes and References

  1. Bowern . Claire . The riddle of Tasmanian languages . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 2012 . 279 . 1747 . 4590–4595 . 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842. free . 23015621 . 3479735 .
  2. Bowern (2012), supplement