Port Sorell language
| Port Sorell | |
|---|---|
| Port Sorell Tasmanian | |
| Region | North-central coast of Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Northern tribe of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
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Northern–Western Tasmanian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
Noneport1278 (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
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Port Sorell". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Port Sorell at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
- ↑ Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W. and Blake, B. J. Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
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