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| Port Sorell | |
|---|---|
| Port Sorell Tasmanian | |
| Region | North-central coast of Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Northern tribe of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Northern–Western Tasmanian?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xpl |
| Glottolog | port1278 |
| AIATSIS[1] | T13 |
Port Sorell is an extinct aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[2] It was spoken near Port Sorell, in the center of the north coast, just east of Northern Tasmanian proper. Dixon & Crowley (1981) agree that there is unlikely to be a close connection to other varieties of Tasmanian.[3]
Port Sorell Tasmanian is attested from at least two word lists: One of 268[dubious – discuss] words collected by Charles Robinson (the son of George Augustus Robinson) at Port Sorell, and another of only 77 words, the "Little Jemmie’s" vocabulary collected by George Augustus Robinson.[4]
Among the Robinson papers (call number A7085, item 6) held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney, there are 6 word lists of Port Sorell Tasmanian that were handwritten by Charles Robinson, with significant duplication; one of the lists is titled only as Larmuric (the informant's name).[5] The Mitchell Library's A7085 manuscript set also has the following word lists that were handwritten by Charles Robinson, all of which are partly duplicated.[5]
- Ben Lomond – 2 lists
- Big River – 3 lists
- West Coast – 2 lists
References
[edit]- ↑ T13 Port Sorell at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Bowern, Claire (2012-11-22). "The riddle of Tasmanian languages". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1747): 4590–4595. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3479735. PMID 23015621.
- ↑ Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
- 1 2 Plomley, N. J. B. (1976). A Word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages. Launceston: Government of Tasmania. ISBN 0724601988.