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Norman Tasmanian language

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Extinct
  
19th century

Glottolog
  
None

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Region
  
Unidentified location in northeastern Tasmania

Ethnicity
  
Unidentified tribe of Tasmanians

Language family
  
Northeastern Tasmanian "Norman"

A variety of aboriginal Tasmanian attested in a manuscript nicknamed the "Norman" vocabulary is identified as a distinct language in the reconstructions of Claire Bowern. The list of 386 words was recorded in Sorell, Tasmania in the 19th century by one Charles Sterling. The language was presumably spoken somewhere in the northeast of Tasmania, but the original location of the speakers was not recorded.

References

Norman Tasmanian language Wikipedia