Eastern Tasmanian languages

Eastern Tasmanian
Oyster Bay – Bruny
Geographic
distribution
Eastern coast of Tasmania and interior
EthnicityOyster Bay, Big River, and Bruny tribes of Tasmanians
Extinct19th century
Linguistic classificationPossibly one of the world's primary language families
(see Tasmanian languages)
Subdivisions
  • Oyster Bay
  • Bruny (Southeast)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologoyst1235  (Oyster Bay)
sout1293  (Bruny/Southeast)
Eastern Tasmanian language families per Bowern (2012)
  Oyster Bay
  Southeast Tasmanian

Eastern Tasmanian is an aboriginal language family of Tasmania in the reconstructed classification of Claire Bowern.[1]

  1. ^ Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842

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