Northeastern Tasmanian, or Pyemmairre, is an
aboriginal language of
Tasmania
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It is identified in the reconstruction of
Claire Bowern
Claire Louise Bowern () is a linguist who works with Australian Indigenous languages. She is currently a professor of linguistics at Yale University, and has a secondary appointment in the department of anthropology at Yale.
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[Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", ''Proc. R. Soc. B'', 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842] 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
The Pipers River is a perennial river located in northern region of Tasmania, Australia. It was named for Captain Hugh Piper. The Aboriginal name for the river is ''Wattra karoola''.
Course and features
The river rises below Mount Arthur ne ...
(126 words). Bowern also includes the language of the
Port Dalrymple
George Town (Palawa_kani: ''kinimathatakinta'') is a large town in north-east Tasmania, on the eastern bank of the mouth of the Tamar River. The Australian Bureau of Statistics records the George Town Municipal Area had a population of 6,764 as ...
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.
The name ''Pyemmairre'' may not include the highland people of Ben Lomond, for which ''Plangermaireener'' ("Plangamerina") has been used.
References
North East Tasmania
Northeastern Tasmanian languages
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