• Palawa kani is a constructed language created by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre as a composite Tasmanian language, based on reconstructed vocabulary...
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    and traditions. The largest language revival project to date is the Palawa kani project. Little is known of the languages and no relationship to other...
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    The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Palawa kani: Palawa or Pakana) are the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland...
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  • Tasmania, Australia Palawa languages, group of Tasmanian languages spoken by Indigenous people Palawa kani, a language of the Palawa people Palawan (disambiguation)...
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    Tasmania (/tæzˈmeɪniə/; palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 kilometres (150 miles) to the south of the Australian...
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  • acknowledgement of racial violence in Australia. It is the first film to include palawa kani, a reconstructed form of the once extinct Tasmanian languages. The Nightingale...
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  • linguists and other researchers based at the University of Adelaide. Palawa kani is an attempt to revive various Tasmanian dialects in a single combined...
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    Hobart /ˈhoʊbɑːrt/ HOH-bart; (palawa kani: nipaluna) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's...
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    kilometres (40 mi) east of the town of Longford. The Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani name for Ben Lomond is turapina and was recorded in various word lists...
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    or earlier) Eskayan (Eskaya, c. 1920) Medefaidrin (Ibibio, 1930s) Palawa kani (Palawa, 1990s) An a posteriori language (from Latin a posteriori, "from...
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  • traditional Tasmanian language, Fanny Cochrane Smith, died in 1905. Palawa kani is an in-progress constructed language, built from a composite of surviving...
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    The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) (palawa kani: purinina) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was formerly present across...
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    Lake Leake (palawa kani: kunawi) is the name of both a man-made water storage reservoir and a small township in the eastern midlands of Tasmania. The...
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    Mount Zeehan /maʊntˈziːən/ MOWNT-ZEE-ən (Peerapper/palawa kani: Weiawenena) is a mountain located in the Heemskirk Range on the West Coast of Tasmania...
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    Midway Point (paredarerme/palawa kani: tipina) is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Sorell in the South-east LGA region of...
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    the Freycinet Peninsula and is a part of Freycinet National Park. The palawa kani place name for the island is mayaluwarana. The locality of Schouten Island...
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    The Tasmanian nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii) (palawa kani: piyura) (alternative spellings: Tasmanian native-hen or Tasmanian native hen) is a flightless...
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    The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor), also known by the palawa kani name swift waylitja, is a species of broad-tailed parrot, found only in southeastern...
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    George Town (palawa kani: kinimathatakinta) is a large town in north-east Tasmania, on the eastern bank of the mouth of the Tamar River. The Australian...
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    The Bay of Fires (palawa kani: larapuna) is a bay on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, extending from Binalong Bay to Eddystone Point....
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    Burnie (/ˈbɜːrni/ BER-nee; pirinilaplu/palawa kani: pataway) is a port city located on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the fourth largest...
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    Minister for the Environment, Josh Frydenberg. The name is the word in the palawa kani language of Aboriginal Tasmanians for the southern lights. The name was...
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    The Great Western Tiers (Palawa kani: Kooparoona Niara) are a collection of mountain bluffs that form the northern edge of the Central Highlands plateau...
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    New Norfolk (/njuːˈnɔːfək/ nyoo-NOR-fək; Leenowwenne/palawa kani: wulawali) is a riverside town located on the River Derwent in southeastern Tasmania...
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    Mount Wellington, also known as kunanyi (palawa kani: /kuːˈnɑːnjiː/) and gazetted as kunanyi / Mount Wellington is a mountain in the south-east of Tasmania...
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  • uses majuscule letterforms save for a single suffix, and that used for palawa kani language in Tasmania, which uses only minuscule letterforms. Unicase...
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    Maria Island or wukaluwikiwayna in palawa kani is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The 115.5-square-kilometre...
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    Mount Nelson (/maʊntˈnɛlsən/MOWNT-NEL-sən; Nuenonne/palawa kani: kriwalayti) is a mountain suburb located on the southern boundary of the city of Hobart...
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  • "Melaythina" which is the first commercially available song sung in Palawa kani. His song "It's Like Love" with Jasmine Beams was featured in a Tourism...
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    Devonport (/ˈdɛvənpɔːrt/ DEV-ən-port; pirinilaplu/palawa kani: limilinaturi) is a port city situated at the mouth of the Mersey River on the north-west...
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