Talk:Aboriginal Tasmanians

message: * Recent research by the late linguist John Taylor suggests that there were four successive waves of migration over 40,000 years, classified by languages cognate with continental australian aboriginal language:
# c39 000 BP - first migration commenced from the Otway/Murray River estuary via the King Highlands
# c17 000 BP -  new immigrants from South Grampians region enter Tasmania and displace Palawa
# c17 000 BP -  third wave of immigrants enter via the Furneaux highlands from Gippsland
# c17 000 - 5 000BP - final wave of immigration via the King highlands from Mt Gambier/Warrnambool region
This is unsourced (b) Taylor never completed his PhD (3) I don't know where he got that from but it is prima facie an extremely improbable conclusion (4) we have 3,000 words (out of perhaps an original wordstock of   upwards of 1-200,000) of different Palawa languages, whose independent profiles we cannot determine, and (5) making inferences from these ill-transcribed remnants as to topologically and temporally differentiated migration patterns going back 40,000 years is impossible. Ask any linguist.Nishidani (talk) 16:31, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Passages removed 

message: Please change "Premighana" in the Visual Art section to "Preminghana". 114.76.102.54 (talk) 04:56, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Gulumeemee (talk) 09:40, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 February 2019 

message: From the lead section, paragraph 3: "by 1835 only some 400 full-blooded Tasmanian aborigines survived." 
From the lead section, paragraph 4: "By 1833... George Augustus Robinson... had persuaded the approximately 200 surviving Aboriginal Tasmanians to surrender themselves."
I doubt that the population doubled in size in two years. Axl ¤ [Talk] 11:48, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population in 1833 & 1835 

message: `isolated until british arrival`, yet, later paragraphs say, it was named Van Deimans land by the DUTCH explorer, Able Tasman, after which, the state is now named, TASMANIA, why the impression the british were the first here (or the rest of the globe), there is likely  other explorers to visit Lutrawita, but never made it back to europe to tell of it/maps of it (possible Chinese exploration also), perhaps this needs addressing and not so pro british  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:1424:4C01:5499:1F59:CAE7:D634 (talk) 06:29, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Good observation. I've changed the wording of the second paragraph to say "European" rather than "British". While Chinese visitation possibly happened, it's not well enough documented to incliude it here at this stage. HiLo48 (talk) 06:51, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  conflict in the information, isolated until british colonisation ? yet named `Tasmania` after the Dutch explorer, Able Tasman, Dutch, not british 

message: I am the last Tasmanian Aborigine with our peoples Original, True and Universal Language, and what is curious is that besides this fact, and my registered family DNA links, it seems that I remain unrecognized by the Hobart Aboriginal hierarchy that decides it. in fact in seeking recognition, I was deliberately diverted to the minister for Aboriginal Affairs in Victoria, {evidently a common practice} before being reconnected with the very person who diverted me at the Hobart office, I have been told that this individual will contact me shortly, and that was about 3 months ago,this is not the first time I have contacted this Office and been ousted;
The reanimated language is heavily based on Melukerdee words - huon river area - there WAS NOT ONE LANGUAGE IN TASMANIA- WRONG!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.178.198.124 (talk) 02:50, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Aboriginal  

message: This is a name used by a very small minority of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. There was never one name for Tasmanian first nation people. This has been created by a few to gain funding. Greed is the motivator. Check out "Palawan" on Google. You will find a pacific Island. My ancestors were Tasmanian Aboriginal people, not palawa people. 2001:8003:163E:4700:ED0A:48B7:B6B8:1B0C (talk) 11:49, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palawa