Pyemmairre language
| Pyemmairre | |
|---|---|
| Northeastern Tasmanian | |
| Region | North-eastern corner of Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Northeastern and Ben Lomond tribes of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
|
Northeastern Tasmanian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
benl1235[1] |
| AIATSIS[2] |
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.[3] It was spoken in the northeastern corner of the island.
Northeastern Tasmanian is attested from three word lists of Charles Robinson and George Augustus Robinson: From Cape Portland (366 words), Ben Lomond (195 words), and Pipers River (126 words).[4] 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 consider it to be a distinct language.[5]
The name Pyemmairre may not include the highland people of Ben Lomond, for which Plangermaireener ("Plangamerina") has been used.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ben Lomond–Cape Portland". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
- ↑ 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.