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Tommeginne language

Extinct Aboriginal language of Tasmania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Northern Tasmanian, or Tommeginne (Tommeeginnee), is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[2]

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Northern Tasmanian is attested from word lists collected on Flinders Island by Joseph Milligan and published in 1857 & 1859. One, labeled "northwest tribes", contains 268[dubious discuss] words; the other, labeled "western tribes", contains 369.[3]

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