Nuenonne language explained

Nuenonne
Also Known As:(Mainland) Southeast Tasmanian
Ethnicity:Bruny tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct:19th century
Familycolor:australian
Fam1:Eastern Tasmanian
Fam2:Bruny
Iso3:xpf
Aiatsis:T5
Aiatsisname:(includes Bruny Island)
Glotto:sout1439
Glottorefname:South-Eastern-Tasmanian-Hinterland

Nuenonne ("Nyunoni"), or Southeast Tasmanian, is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[1] It was spoken along the southeastern mainland of the island by the Bruny tribe.

Mainland Southeast Tasmanian is attested by 202 words collected by François Péron (1802) and by 573 words in various vocabularies collected by the D’Entrecasteaux expedition of 1792 - 1793 and published by Labillardière in 1800 and by Rossel in 1808.[2] The French transcriptions of these sources differ from the English respellings seen in the records of other varieties of Tasmanian.

Truganini spoke Nuenonne.

Notes and References

  1. Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590 - 4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
  2. Bowern (2012), supplement