Tyerrernotepanner

Tyerrernotepanner, or North Midland Tasmanian, was the Aboriginal language of the North Midlands people of northeastern Tasmania, along the Tamar River and inland of Ben Lomond and Great Oyster Bay. After rising seas flooded the land bridge of the Bass Strait about six millennia before the common era, the Tasmanian languages developed in isolation from the Australian mainland.

Tyerrernotepanner is known almost entirely from a list of 125 words collected at Port Dalrymple by the French naturalist Joseph Paul Gaimard between 1817 and 1820. It lies closest to Northeastern Tasmanian, though some linguists rank it as a language of its own.

British colonisation began in 1803, and between 1830 and 1835 the surviving Aboriginal people were removed to Wybalenna on Flinders Island, dispersing the communities that had carried the language orally.