What evidence suggests that Tasmanian languages had an Australian-style sound system?

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Distinctive features of Australia's Indigenous languages — Australian Aboriginal languages A discussion of the languages of Indigenous Australians.

The evidence suggesting that Tasmanian languages possessed an Australian-style sound system is derived from the analysis of the meagre surviving lists of words recorded before the languages became extinct.1

While these word lists are insufficient to demonstrate that Tasmanian languages share a common origin or cognate sets with continental Australian Aboriginal languages, they do exhibit the characteristic phonological profile associated with the Australian language family.1