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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]
The Flinders Island lingua franca was based primarily on Eastern and Northeastern Tasmanian languages. [3] The English-based Bass Strait Pidgin continued some vocabulary from the lingua franca. [4] The constructed language Palawa kani is based on many of the same languages as the lingua franca. [5]
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.
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].
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 ...
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Palawa kani, a language of the Palawa people; See also. Palawan (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 19:03 (UTC). Text is ...