Pyemmairre language

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

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

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.

References

T7 Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
Bowern (2012), supplement
Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.

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[AIATSIS-1] T7 Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)

[Bowern-2] Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842

[3] Bowern (2012), supplement

[4] Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.