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Little Swanport
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	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

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