Nuenonne ("Nyunoni"), or Southeast Tasmanian, is an Aboriginal language of

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

in the reconstruction of

Claire Bowern Claire Louise Bowern ( ) is a linguist who works with Australian Indigenous languages. She is currently a professor of linguistics at Yale University, and has a secondary appointment in the department of anthropology at Yale. Career Bowern r ...

.Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", ''Proc. R. Soc. B'', 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842 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.Bowern (2012), supplement The French transcriptions of these sources differ from the English respellings seen in the records of other varieties of Tasmanian.

Truganini Truganini ( 1812 – 8 May 1876), also known as Lalla Rookh and Lydgugee, was widely described as the last of the "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanians after British colonisation and one of the last speakers of the Tasmanian languages. As a t ...

spoke Nuenonne.

References

Eastern Tasmanian languages Languages extinct in the 19th century {{ia-lang-stub