Port Sorell language

Port Sorell
Port Sorell Tasmanian
Region	North-central coast of Tasmania
Ethnicity	Northern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northern–Western Tasmanian? Northern Tasmanian Port Sorell
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None port1278  (included)[1]
AIATSIS[2]	T13*

Port Sorell is an aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.^[3] It was spoken near Port Sorell, in the center of the north coast, just east of Northern Tasmanian proper. Dixon & Crowley agree that there is unlikely to be a close connection to other varieties of Tasmanian.^[4]

Port Sorell Tasmanian is attested from two word lists: One of 268 words collected by Charles Robinson at Port Sorell, and another of only 77 words, the "Little Jemmie’s" vocabulary collected by George Augustus Robinson.^[5]

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Port Sorell". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Port Sorell at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
4. Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.
5. Bowern (2012), supplement