Pyemmairre language

Pyemmairre
Pyemmairre
Northeastern Tasmanian
Region	North-eastern corner of Tasmania
Ethnicity	Northeastern and Ben Lomond tribes of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northeastern Tasmanian Pyemmairre;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpb
Glottolog	benl1235
AIATSIS	T7 Ben Lomond, T9 Cape Portland, T14 Piper River

Northeastern Tasmanian, or Pyemmairre, is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania.

It is identified in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern. It was spoken in the northeastern corner of the island, including at Cape Portland.

Northeastern Tasmanian is attested from three word lists of Charles Robinson and his father George Augustus Robinson: From Cape Portland (366 words), Ben Lomond (195 words), and Pipers River (126 words). Bowern also includes the language of the Port Dalrymple vocabulary (125 words) collected by J.-P. Gaimard in the Tamar River region of the North Midlands; however, it is divergent, and Dixon & Crowley (1981) consider it to be a distinct language.

The name Pyemmairre may not include the highland people of Ben Lomond, for which Plangermaireener ("Plangamerina") has been used.

References

↑ T7 Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
↑ Bowern, Claire (2012). "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.
↑ Robinson, George Augustus. Robinson papers A7085. Manuscripts held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
↑ Gaimard, Joseph Paul. 1834. Vocabulaire de la langue des habitans du Port Dalrymple (Tasmanie). In: J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville, Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe (1826-29). Philologie, vol. 2, pp. 9-10.
↑ Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.

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[AIATSIS-1] T7 Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)

[Bowern-2] Bowern, Claire (2012). "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.

[3] Robinson, George Augustus. Robinson papers A7085. Manuscripts held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

[4] Bowern (2012), supplement

[5] Gaimard, Joseph Paul. 1834. Vocabulaire de la langue des habitans du Port Dalrymple (Tasmanie). In: J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville, Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe (1826-29). Philologie, vol. 2, pp. 9-10.

[6] Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.