Tommeginne language

Tommeginne
Tommeginne
Northern Tasmanian
Region	North-central coast of Tasmania
Ethnicity	Northern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northern–Western Tasmanian? Northern Tasmanian Tommeginne; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpv
Glottolog	None; port1278 included
AIATSIS	T1

Northern Tasmanian, or Tommeginne (Tommeeginnee), is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.^[2]

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Northern Tasmanian is attested from word lists collected on Flinders Island by Joseph Milligan and published in 1857 & 1859. One, labeled "northwest tribes", contains 268^{[dubious – discuss]} words; the other, labeled "western tribes", contains 369.^[3]

References

[AIATSIS-1] [1]
T1 Tommeginne at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[Bowern-2] [2]
Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842

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Bowern (2012), supplement

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