"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.