Tasmanian languages
| Tasmanian | |
|---|---|
| (geographic) | |
Fanny Cochrane Smith, last speaker of the Flinders Islands Lingua franca, a Tasmanian Aboriginal language. | |
| Geographic distribution | Originally, throughout Tasmania; after the Black War, around the Bass Strait; now, presumably, only, in the Flinders Island and other parts of northeastern Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Aboriginal Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 1905, with the extinction of the Flinders Islands Lingua franca at the death of Fanny Cochrane Smith |
| Linguistic classification | at least three language families: Northeastern Oyster Bay – Southeastern Northern–Western? |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | tasm1247 |
Approximate ethnic divisions in pre-European Tasmania | |
The Tasmanian languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania, used by Aboriginal Tasmanians. The languages were last used for daily communication in the 1830s, although the terminal speaker, Fanny Cochrane Smith, survived until 1905.