Little Swanport language

Little Swanport
Region region of Little Swanport, eastern Tasmania
Ethnicity Oyster Bay tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct 19th century
Eastern Tasmanian

  • Oyster Bay

    • Little Swanport
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None
oyst1235  (Oyster Bay + Little Swanport)[1]
AIATSIS[2] T15*

Little Swanport Tasmanian is an aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[3] It was spoken near the modern town of Little Swanport on the east coast. Dixon & Crowley had noted that it appeared to be distinct, but were not sure if it constituted a separate language from other word lists collected near Oyster Bay.[4]

The Little Swanport language is attested in a list of 211 words collected by George Augustus Robinson.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Oyster Bay + Little Swanport". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Little Swanport at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
  4. ↑ Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W. and Blake, B. J. Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.
  5. ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement


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