Pyemmairre language

Pyemmairre
Northeastern Tasmanian
Region North-eastern corner of Tasmania
Ethnicity Northeastern and Ben Lomond tribes of Tasmanians
Extinct 19th century
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

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ben Lomond–Cape Portland". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  3. ↑ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
  4. ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
  5. ↑ 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.