Peerapper language
| Peerapper | |
|---|---|
| Northwestern Tasmanian | |
| Region | North-western coast of Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Northwestern tribe of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Northern–Western Tasmanian?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xpw |
| Glottolog | nort3415 |
| AIATSIS[1] | T3 North-western (Tasmania), T6 Macquarie Harbour, T11 Robbins Island, T12 Circular Head |
Northwestern Tasmanian, or Peerapper (also Peewrapper or "Pirapa"), is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[2] It was spoken along the west coast of the island, from Macquarie Harbour north to Circular Head and Robbins Island.
Northwestern Tasmanian is poorly attested from four word lists: The "west coast" vocabularies of Charles Robinson and George Augustus Robinson, with 246 words combined; the Robbins Island list of George Augustus Robinson, with 162 words;[3] and the Macquarie Harbour vocabularies of Allan Cunningham (222 words), collected on 25 January 1819[4] and later republished by Phillip Parker King in 1826.[5][6]
The list collected by George Augustus Robinson at West Point ("Western Tribes") is divergent, and is classified as a separate language by Bowern. However, it includes only 28 words, so little can be definitively said.
References
[edit]- ↑ T3 North-western (Tasmania) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Bowern, Claire (2012). "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.
- ↑ Robinson, George Augustus. Robinson papers A7085. Manuscripts held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
- ↑ Cunningham, Allan. Manuscript journal for 25 January 1819. Mitchell Library, ML.A1744.
- ↑ King, Phillip Parker. 1826. Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. London.
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
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