Tommeginne language

Tommeginne
Tommeginne
Northern Tasmanian
Region	North-central coast of Tasmania
Ethnicity	Northern tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northern–Western Tasmanian? Northern Tasmanian Tommeginne; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpv
Glottolog	None; port1278 included
AIATSIS	T1

Northern Tasmanian, or Tommeginne (Tommeeginnee), is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.

Northern Tasmanian is attested from word lists collected on Flinders Island by Joseph Milligan and published in 1857 & 1859. One, labeled "northwest tribes", contains 268^{[dubious – discuss]} words; the other, labeled "western tribes", contains 369.

References

^ T1 Tommeginne at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
^ Bowern (2012), supplement

[AIATSIS-1] T1 Tommeginne at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[Bowern-2] Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842

[3] Bowern (2012), supplement