Norman Tasmanian language
| "Norman" | |
|---|---|
| Region | Unidentified location in northeastern Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Unidentified tribe of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Northeastern Tasmanian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
A variety of aboriginal Tasmanian attested in a manuscript nicknamed the "Norman" vocabulary is identified as a distinct language in the reconstructions of Claire Bowern.[1] The Norman vocabulary was originally compiled by Reverend James Norman of Sorell, Tasmania, and was apparently later copied by Charles Sterling.[2] The list of 386 words was handwritten in Sorell, Tasmania in the 19th century by Charles Sterling, who was George Augustus Robinson's clerk from 1829 to 1832.[2][3] The language was presumably spoken somewhere in the northeast of Tasmania, but the original location of the speakers was not recorded.
Plomley (1976) lists a few different versions of the '"Norman" vocabulary:[2]
- ‘The Norman vocabulary’: manuscript in the archives of the Royal Society of Tasmania, now deposited with the University of Tasmania, Hobart.
- ‘The Norman vocabulary’: published by Edward Micklethwaite Curr in The Australian race, vol. 3, pp. 611-616 (1887).
- ‘The Norman vocabulary’: published by the Royal Society of Tasmania in its Papers and Proceedings, for 1910, pp. 333-342 (1911), with a commentary by H. B. Ritz (pp. 343-345).
References
- ↑ Bowern, Claire (2012). "The riddle of Tasmanian languages". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1747): 4590–4595. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842. PMC 3479735. PMID 23015621.
- 1 2 3 Plomley, N. J. B. (1976). A Word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages. Launceston: Government of Tasmania. ISBN 0724601988.
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement