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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 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 ...
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.
Palawa kani: 1992 Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre: Based on reconstructed vocabulary from the limited accounts of the various Tasmanian languages once spoken by the eastern Aboriginal Tasmanians. Slovio: 1999 Mark Hučko: A constructed language based on the Slavic languages and Esperanto grammar. Romance Neolatino: 2006 Jordi Cassany Bates and others
Tasmanian languages are attested by three dozen word lists, the most extensive being those of Joseph Milligan [2] and George Augustus Robinson.All these show a poor grasp of the sounds of Tasmanian, which appear to have been fairly typical of Australian languages in this parameter [clarification needed].
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 ...
Languages are also a key learning area up to Year 10 and include Arabic, Auslan, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese, as well as the Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, and Framework for Classical Languages including Classical Greek and ...
In 2022 Nala Mansell, a campaign coordinator for the centre, called for the removal of a statue of William Crowther from Franklin Square in Hobart. [5] Crowther, a surgeon and former Premier of Tasmania is primarily known for his actions surrounding the theft, decapitation and mutilation of the body of the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal man, William Lanne in 1869.