Palawa Kani
dialect
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Palawa Kani is a revived dialect of the extinct Tasmanian Aboriginal languages, also known as Palawa. These languages were spoken by the Indigenous people of Tasmania before 1877. Efforts to revive these languages began in the 1990s, resulting in Palawa Kani, which is a synthesized dialect created from the remaining fragments of the earlier languages. It is important to note that Palawa Kani is distinct from the Palauan language, which is spoken in Palau and belongs to the Austronesian language family.12
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