Nuenonne ("Nyunoni") or Southeast Tasmanian, is an
Aboriginal language of
Tasmania
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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.
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[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 differs from the English respellings seen in the records of other varieties of Tasmanian.
Truganini spoke
Nuenonne.
References
Eastern Tasmanian languages
Languages extinct in the 19th century
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