palawa kani
Constructed language created by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Palawa kani is a constructed language[1] created by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre as a composite Tasmanian language, based on reconstructed vocabulary from the limited accounts of the various languages once spoken by the Aboriginal people living on the island now known as Tasmania or lutruwita.[2][6][4][7]
palawa kani | |
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Created by | Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre |
Date | 1992[1] |
Setting and usage | Tasmania |
Ethnicity | Aboriginal Tasmanians |
Users | 400[2] |
Purpose | |
Latin alphabet[3] | |
Sources | Fragments from the 8 to 16 Tasmanian languages recorded by early Europeans and oral tradition.[1][4] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None |
Glottolog | pala1356 |
AIATSIS[2] | T16 |
ELP | Palawa Kani |
IETF | art-x-palawa (unofficial)[5] |
The centre wishes to restrict the availability of the language until it is established in the Aboriginal Tasmanian community and claims copyright.[8] The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is used to justify this claim to copyright as it declares that indigenous people have the right to control their "cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions" and that states must "recognise and protect the exercise of these rights".[9][10] However, the declaration is legally non-binding and languages cannot receive copyright protection in many countries, including Australia and the USA.[11][12][8] The centre however provides a list of place names in palawa kani and consents to their free use by the public.[13] Dictionaries and other copyrightable resources for learning the language are only provided to the Aboriginal community.[14]