The Tasmanian languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania, used by Aboriginal Tasmanians. The languages were last used for daily communication in the 1830s, although the terminal speaker, Fanny Cochrane Smith, survived until 1905.
Facts
RegionOriginally throughout Tasmania; after the Black War, concentrated around the Bass Strait; later, presumably, only on Flinders Island and other parts of northeastern Tasmania 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusNo proto-language has been reconstructed; there is no good evidence for a Tasmanian language family 1 Sources
1. Tasmanian languages - Wikipedia
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Originally, throughout Tasmania; after the Black War, around the Bass Strait; now, presumably, only, in the Flinders Island and other parts of northeastern Tasmania
Introduction, paragraph 1
The languages were last used for daily communication in the 1830s, although the terminal speaker, Fanny Cochrane Smith, survived until 1905.
External classification section
There is no good evidence for a Tasmanian language family
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