Paredarerme language

Paredarerme (also known as Paytirami, Poredareme or Oyster Bay Tasmanian) is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.

Records of the Big River dialect, Lairmairrener ("Lemerina"), indicate that it was no more distinct than the vocabularies collected along the coast around Oyster Bay; indeed, Little Swanport appears to have been a separate language.

Big River Tasmanian is attested in a list of 268 words collected by George Augustus Robinson.

Coastal vocabularies include the Oyster Bay list of Robinson (357 words), and a second collected by Joseph Milligan of 1,040 words published in 1857 and 1859.

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