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Palawa kani is a constructed language [1] created by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre as a composite Tasmanian language, based on reconstructed vocabulary from the limited accounts of the various languages once spoken by the Aboriginal people of what is now Tasmania (palawa kani: Lutruwita).
The Tasmanian Palawa Aboriginal community is making an effort to reconstruct and reintroduce a Tasmanian language, called palawa kani out of the various records on Tasmanian languages. Other Tasmanian Aboriginal communities use words from traditional Tasmanian languages, according to the language area they were born or live in.
The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor), also known by the palawa kani name swift waylitja, [3] [4] is a species of broad-tailed parrot, found only in southeastern Australia. The species breeds in Tasmania during the summer and migrates north to southeastern mainland Australia from Griffith - Warialda in New South Wales and west to Adelaide in the ...
However, there are other local words for 'laugh', 'water', and 'belly', and the reflexes of *taway are so similar as to be suspicious. *Wii is therefore the most promising; it is found as wiya, wina, wikina (-na is a common ending) and wii, glossed as wood, tree, brush, or timber.
The Tasmanian nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii) (palawa kani: piyura) [2] (alternative spellings: Tasmanian native-hen or Tasmanian native hen) is a flightless rail and one of twelve species of birds endemic to the Australian island of Tasmania.
Tasmania from space. Tasmania (/ t æ z ˈ m eɪ n i ə /; palawa kani: lutruwita [14]) is an island state of Australia. [15] It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait.
Palawa kani is an in-progress constructed language, built from a composite of surviving words from various Tasmanian Aboriginal languages. [ 31 ] Indigenous sign languages
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) (palawa kani: purinina) [3] is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.It was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the island of Tasmania.