Tommeginne language

Tommeginne
Northern Tasmanian
RegionNorth-central coast of Tasmania
EthnicityNorthern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct19th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3xpv
GlottologNone
AIATSIST1

Northern Tasmanian, or Tommeginne (Tommeeginnee, Tommyginny), is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.

Northern Tasmanian is attested from word lists collected on Flinders Island by Joseph Milligan, which were published in 1857 and 1859. One, labeled "northwest tribes", contains 268[dubious – discuss] words; the other, labeled "western tribes", contains 369.

References

  1. ↑ T1 Tommeginne at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ↑ Plomley, N. J. B. (1976). A Word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages. Launceston: Government of Tasmania. ISBN 0724601988.
  3. ↑ Bowern, Claire (2012-11-22). "The riddle of Tasmanian languages". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1747): 4590–4595. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3479735. PMID 23015621.
  4. ↑ Milligan, Joseph. Vocabulary of dialects of aboriginal tribes of Tasmania. Tasmania, Legislative Council, 1, paper 7, 20 pp. (1857).
  5. ↑ Milligan, Joseph. Vocabulary of dialects of aboriginal tribes of Tasmania. Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 3, pp. 239-274 (1859).
  6. ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement