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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).
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].
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]
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 is an in-progress constructed language, built from a composite of surviving words from various Tasmanian Aboriginal languages. [ 31 ] Indigenous sign languages
Palawa recognise only descendants of the Bass Strait Island community as Aboriginal and do not consider as Aboriginal the Lia Pootah, who claim descent, based on oral traditions, from Tasmanian mainland Aboriginal communities. The Lia Pootah feel that the Palawa controlled Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre does not represent them politically. [6] [7]
Bruny Island Tasmanian is attested in a list of 986 words collected by Joseph Milligan (published 1857 & 1859); in 515 words collected by George Augustus Robinson; in 273 words from Charles Sterling; and in 111 words from R.A. Roberts (published 1828). The Milligan vocabulary is divergent, and falls out as a distinct language when the lists are ...