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    Bruny Island language


    Bruny Island Tasmanian, or Nuenonne ("Nyunoni"), a name shared with Southeast
    Tasmanian, is an aboriginal language or pair of languages of Tasmania in the Bruny Island
    reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[3] It was spoken on Bruny Island, off the southeastern Nuenonne
    coast of Tasmania, by the Bruny tribe. Region Bruny Island,
    Tasmania
    Bruny Island Tasmanian is attested in a list of 986 words collected by Joseph Milligan
    Ethnicity Bruny tribe of
    (published 1857 & 1859); in 515 words collected by George Augustus Robinson; in 273
    Tasmanians
    words from Charles Sterling; and in 111 words from R.A. Roberts (published 1828). The
    Milligan vocabulary is divergent, and falls out as a distinct language when the lists are Extinct perhaps 8 May 1876,
    with the death of
    compared at p < 0.15, though it falls together with the rest of the island at a looser
    Truganini
    criterion of p < 0.20.[4]
    Language Eastern Tasmanian
    family
    Sample text Bruny
    (Southeastern)
    Bruny Island
    The following is recorded as a prayer collected on Bruny Island in Robinson's diaries.[5]
    The first line is the Robinson's transcription, followed by a reconstruction of what Dialects Milligan vocabulary
    Robinson may have heard, and finally an English gloss. Language codes
    ISO 639-3 xpz

    Glottolog brun1235 (http://glot


    tolog.org/resource/la
    nguoid/id/brun1235)[1]

    AIATSIS[2] T5 (https://collectio
    n.aiatsis.gov.au/aust
    lang/language/T5) (inclu
    SE Tasmanian)

    MOTTI NYRAE PARLERDI MOTTI NOVILLY RAEGEWROPPER PARLERDI NYRAE PARLERDI


    moti nairi palati moti nowili retji-ropa palati nairi palati
    one good God one bad devil God good God
    MAGGERER WARRANGELLY RAEGEWROPPER MAGGERER TOOGENNER UENEE NYRAE PARLERVAR LOGERNER
    makara waran-ngali retji-ropa makara tökana wini nairi palawa lookana
    stop sky devil stop below fire good native dead
    TAGGERER TEENNY LAWWAY WARRANGELLY PARLERDI NYRAE RAEGE (etc.) NOVILLY
    takara tini lawey waran-ngali palati nairi retji nowili
    goes road up sky God good white man bad
    PARLERVAR LOGERNER TAGGERER TEENNY TOOGUNNER RAEGEWROPPER UENEE MAGGERER UENEE
    palawa lookana takara tini tökana retji-ropa wini makara wini
    native dead go road below devil fire stop fire

    History
    The last speaker of Bruny Island was likely Truganini, who is also widely accepted as the last full-blooded Tasmanian
    Aboriginal person. She was a daughter of Mangana, Chief of the Bruny Island people. Her name was the word her tribe used
    to describe the grey saltbush Atriplex cinerea.[6] In her youth, she took part in her people's traditional culture, but Aboriginal
    life was disrupted by European invasion. When Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1824,
    he implemented two policies to deal with the growing conflict between settlers and the Aboriginal peoples. First, bounties
    were awarded for the capture of Aboriginal adults and children, and secondly an effort was made to establish friendly
    relations with Aboriginal Peoples in order to lure them into camps. The campaign began on Bruny Island, where there had
    been fewer hostilities than in other parts of Tasmania.

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    When Truganini met George Augustus Robinson, the Protector of Aboriginal people, in
    1829, her mother had been killed by sailors, her uncle shot by a soldier, her sister
    abducted by sealers, and her fiancé brutally murdered by timber-getters, who then
    repeatedly sexually abused her. In 1830, Robinson, moved Truganini and Woorrady to
    Flinders Island with the last surviving Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples, numbering
    approximately 100. The stated aim of isolation was to save them, but many of the group
    died from influenza and other diseases. Truganini also helped Robinson with a
    settlement for mainland Aboriginal People at Port Phillip in 1838.[7] After about two
    years of living in and around Melbourne, she joined Pevay and three other Tasmanian
    Aboriginal peoples as outlaws, robbing and shooting at settlers around Dandenong and
    starting a long pursuit by the authorities. They headed to Bass River and then Cape
    Paterson. There, members of their group murdered two whalers at Watsons hut. The
    Truganini, seated right group was captured and sent for trial for murder at Port Phillip. A gunshot wound to
    Truganini's head was treated by Dr. Hugh Anderson of Bass River. The two men of the
    group were found guilty and hanged on 20 January 1842.[8] Truganini and most of the
    other Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples were returned to Flinders Island several months later. In 1856, the few surviving
    Tasmanian Aboriginal people on Flinders Island, including Truganini, were moved to a settlement at Oyster Cove, south of
    Hobart.[9][10]

    References
    1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bruny Island" (http://glottolog.org/resource/lang
    uoid/id/brun1235). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
    2. T5 (http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au/main.php?code=T5) (includes SE Tasmanian) at the Australian Indigenous Languages
    Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    3. Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi:
    10.1098/rspb.2012.1842
    4. Bowern (2012), supplement
    5. J.E. Calder, 1874. "Native Tribes of Tasmania", Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 3:28
    6. Ellis, V. R. 1981. Trucanini: Queen or Traitor. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. p.3
    7. The Andersons of Western Port Horton & Morris
    8. "Port Phillip" (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31735061). Australasian Chronicle (Sydney, NSW : 1839 - 1843). Sydney,
    NSW: National Library of Australia. 15 February 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
    9. Gough, Julie Oyster Cove (http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oyster%20Cove.htm) at
    Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania
    10. According to The Times newspaper, quoting a report issued by the Colonial Office, by 1861 the number of survivors at
    Oyster Cove was then 14:"...14 persons, all adults, aboriginal people of Tasmania, who are the sole surviving remnant of
    ten tribes. Nine of these persons are women and five are men. There are among them four married couples, and four of
    the men and five of the women are under 45 years of age, but no children have been born to them for years. It is
    considered difficult to account for this...Besides these 14 persons there is a native woman who is married to a white man,
    and who has a son, a fine healthy-looking child..." The article, headed ‘Decay of Race’, adds that though the survivors
    enjoyed generally good health and still made hunting trips to the bush during the season (after first asking "leave to go"),
    they were now "fed, housed and clothed at public expense" and "much addicted to drinking". The Times, Tuesday, 5 Feb
    1861; pg. 10; Issue 23848; col A

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