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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). [2] [6] [4] [7]
However, many of the languages of Victoria, across the Bass Strait, also allow initial l, and the language of Gippsland nearest Tasmania, Gunai, also had words beginning with trilled r and the clusters br and gr. [19] Blench (2008) notes however that some supposed Tasmanian speakers may actually have been indigenous people from South (mainland ...
The last speaker of a traditional Tasmanian language, Fanny Cochrane Smith, died in 1905. [30] Palawa kani is an in-progress constructed language, built from a composite of surviving words from various Tasmanian Aboriginal languages. [31]
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.
Bayesian phylogenetic analysis suggests that four (at p < 0.20) to five (at p < 0.15) Eastern Tasmanian languages are recorded in the 26 unmixed Tasmanian word lists (out of 35 lists known). These cannot be shown to be related to other Tasmanian languages based on existing evidence. The languages are: [2]
Among the claims on public-domain books and monkey selfies was a curious request from 2012: that Wikipedia remove a page on the Tasmanian language palawa kani, because an aboriginal resources center owned the rights to the language itself.The argument against Wikipedia’s palawa kani page, however, is even more complicated.
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. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 1000 ...
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 ...