Little Swanport language

Little Swanport
Region	region of Little Swanport, eastern Tasmania
Ethnicity	Oyster Bay tribe of Tasmanians
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Eastern Tasmanian Oyster Bay Little Swanport
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None oyst1235  (Oyster Bay + Little Swanport)
AIATSIS[1]	T15

Little Swanport Tasmanian is an aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.^[2] It was spoken near the modern town of Little Swanport on the east coast. Dixon & Crowley had noted that it appeared to be distinct, but were not sure if it constituted a separate language from other word lists collected near Oyster Bay.^[3]

The Little Swanport language is attested in a list of 211 words collected by George Augustus Robinson.^[4]

References

1. T15 Little Swanport at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
3. 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.
4. Bowern (2012), supplement