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The Tasmanian or Palawa languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania. The languages were last used for daily communication in the 1830s. The last full-blooded Tasmanian died on Flinders Island in 1888 but a Tasmanian lingua franca continued to be used until 1905 with the death of the last known speaker Fanny Cochrane Smith. Tasmanian Aborigines today speak English.
