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needs updating[edit]

Gram. & phon. needs updating w Crowley & Dixon (1981). I don't have access. — kwami (talk) 15:38, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bowern abbreviations[edit]

The word-list abbreviations in Bowern are not explained, and there are at least three typos in the figures, making the paper hard to follow. The abbreviations are the same in Table 1 of the supplement and in Fig. 3, apart from XX-s-mj and the eight left out of Fig. 3. As best I can tell, the equivalences are:

Fam.	Fig. 2		Tbl. S1	Fig. 3	Tbl. S1
	#	name	abbrev.	abbrev.	name
NE	1	Ben Lomond	NE-bl
	2	Cape Portland	NE-cp
	3	Piper River	NE-pr
	4	Blackhouse/Walker	UNK-bkwb
	5	Jorgenson	UNK-unk-jj
	6	Norman Vocab	NE-unk-sn
	7	eastern	NE-e
	8	Port Dalrymple	NE-dl
	9	Arthur River	UNK-unk-ar	—	(Manuscript vocabulary, Arthur papers)
	10	Lhotsky vocab	UNK-lh
	32	Robinson Northeast	UNK-gar-ne	—
NE+OB	12	Swanport	OyB-sp	—
OB+NW	11	Oyster Bay (other)	OyB-oyb-other	—
OB	13	Big River	OyB-br
	14	Little Swanport	OyB-ls
	15	Robinson Oyster Bay	OyB-oyb-gar
	16	Milligan Oyster Bay	OyB-oyb-mj
SE	17	Milligan Bruny Island	OyB-s-mj	SE-s-mj
	18	southeastern	SE-se-other
	19	Peron	SE-se-pp
	20	Robinson Bruny Island	SE-b-gar
	21	Roberts Bruny Island	SE-b-rb
	22	Sterling vocabulary	SE-b-st
N	23	Little Jemmie	UNK-gar-lj
	24	Port Sorrell [sic]	NW-ps
	28	northwest tribes	NW-nw
	29	western	SW-w (?)		[ID'd thru fig 3]
	33	Fisher vocabulary	UNK-unk-wn	—
W	25	northwest	NW-northwest
	26	Robbins Island	NW-ri
	27	west coast	NW-wc
	30	southwest	SW-southwest	—
	31	western tribes	NW-western (?)		[ID'd thru fig. 3]
W+SE	34	southern [Plomley name]	SE-s-other	—
W+NE	35	northern [Plomley name]	NE-n	—

Phonology[edit]

"[ʌ̃]" is unatested in the material I've read, who wrote that and why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimydog000 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Creation of a new Bass Strait pidgin page[edit]

I think that there should be an article about this pidgin. There is, already, a link about it on the Tasmanian languages#Lingua franca section. 46.177.106.73 (talk) 10:47, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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