// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the Nuenonne language say to the tourist? "Nu" speak English?
| Nuenonne | |
|---|---|
| (Mainland) Southeast Tasmanian | |
| Region | south-eastern mainland Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Bruny tribe of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Eastern Tasmanian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xpf |
| Glottolog | sout1439 |
| AIATSIS[1] | T5 (includes Bruny Island) |
Nuenonne ("Nyunoni"), or Southeast Tasmanian, is an extinct Aboriginal language of Tasmania. It was spoken along the southeastern mainland of the island by the Bruny tribe.
Mainland Southeast Tasmanian is attested by 202 words collected by François Péron (1802) and by 573 words in various vocabularies collected by the D’Entrecasteaux expedition of 1792–1793 and published by Labillardière in 1800 and by Rossel in 1808.[2] The French transcriptions of these sources differ from the English respellings seen in the records of other varieties of Tasmanian. The language has been reconstructed by Claire Bowern.[3]
Truganini spoke Nuenonne.
References
[edit]- ↑ T5 (includes Bruny Island) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
- ↑ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
 | This Australian Aboriginal languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |