Languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania that were used by Aboriginal Tasmanians
Tasmanian
(geographic)
Ethnicity
Aboriginal Tasmanians
Geographic distribution
Originally, throughout Tasmania; after the Black War, around the Bass Strait; now, presumably, only, in the Flinders Island and other parts of northeastern Tasmania
Extinct
1905, with the extinction of the Flinders Islands Lingua franca at the death of Fanny Cochrane Smith[1]
Linguistic classification
at least three language families: Northeastern Oyster Bay – Southeastern Northern–Western?
Glottolog
tasm1247
Fanny Cochrane Smith, last speaker of the Flinders Islands Lingua franca, a Tasmanian Aboriginal language.[1]
Approximate ethnic divisions in pre-European Tasmania
The Tasmanian languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania, used by Aboriginal Tasmanians. The languages were last used for daily communication in the 1830s, although the terminal speaker, Fanny Cochrane Smith, survived until 1905.
^ abNJB Plomley, 1976b. Friendly mission: the Tasmanian journals of George Augustus Robinson 1829–34. Kingsgrove. pp. xiv–xv.
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