Pyemmairre language

Northeastern Tasmanian, or Pyemmairre, is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania.

Pyemmairre
Northeastern Tasmanian
Region	North-eastern corner of Tasmania
Ethnicity	Northeastern and Ben Lomond tribes of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Northeastern Tasmanian Pyemmairre
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpb
Glottolog	benl1235
AIATSIS[1]	T7 Ben Lomond, T9 Cape Portland, T14 Piper River

It is identified in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.^[2] It was spoken in the northeastern corner of the island.

Northeastern Tasmanian is attested from three word lists of Charles Robinson and George Augustus Robinson: From Cape Portland (366 words), Ben Lomond (195 words), and Pipers River (126 words).^[3] Bowern also includes the language of the Port Dalrymple vocabulary (125 words) collected by J.-P. Gaimard in the Tamar River region of the North Midlands; however, it is divergent, and Dixon & Crowley consider it to be a distinct language.^[4]

The name Pyemmairre may not include the highland people of Ben Lomond, for which Plangermaireener ("Plangamerina") has been used.