Fanny Cochrane Smith

[TheDetra9]

I WAS RELATED TO HER. ON MY WAY TO NEW ZEALAND NOW.

[blackmask699]

How did you get the wax recordings they are trying to establish the tasmanian aboriginal language or a basic dialect this would be amazing help

,truganini was the last full blood aboriginal from tasmania but they live on because of mixed relations with sealers who abducted aboriginal women during this time....

[tablicakorkowa]

Is there a transcription of this recording? It's incredibly hard to hear any recognisable sound, only distorted vowels.

[ArifMacaco]

She starts breaking it down at 1:48.

[Rokket]

She was the last full blood Tasmanian Aboriginal.

[TrueScandinavia]

@Rokket No she wasn't. Fanny Cochrane Smith was of mixed descent. The last full blood Tasmanian Aboriginal was Trugernanner.

[Klaa13]

heeey (: she's my great great great grandmother. im not even joking either. <3

[diana43997]

It's Horace Watson, not Harold.

[kurioenjeru]

btw this isn't copyrighted.

[kurioenjeru]

although i do appreiciate that someone thought that this was worth being put up for people to see.

[kurioenjeru]

It is her tribes language. this is mainly speaking. i don't know how people get that this is a song... sorry to say there is NO transcript unless the government is withholding it from her descendents.

[SuperDyzee]

@kurioenjeru The Historical Society of Tasmania has the transcript o the song, yes it is a song.

[kurioenjeru]

@SuperDyzee ... mmmk... nice to know since my she is my great-great grandmother on my father's side. we only have very few articles of our hertitage over here.

[greenqat]

Is she singing and doing spoken word, like to give examples of her language?

[orionasmb]

can anybody find me a transcript translation (I know it's extinct, but it's documented)

[SuperDyzee]

@orionasmb

EXTINCT!!! might like to try another word makes my ancestral grandmother sound like an animal.

[orionasmb]

@SuperDyzee when a language has no fluent native speakers left it is declared extinct, do some research. And I wasn't calling her an animal, it's a linguistic phrase commonly used in the field.

[pakanaman]

xxxooo

[wozza2341]

Too true.

[909kong]

I want to contact Tasmania's Historical Society & see if any progress has been made in reconstructing this language. You had to scream at the top of your lungs to do these cylinders, so this isn't really a conversational tone of voice...

[TyphoonSta]

Thank you for this historical file. Astonishing!

[abicheval]

Strange, the language seem almost familiar???

Its beyond vile what has happened/is still happeniing to these interesting people.

[celticwarrior741]

What happened to the Tasmanian Aboriginals was a tragedy & one of the many crimes committed by the stain on history known as the British empire.

[kloratis]

What language does she speak?

[iobject]

she was the last speaker of tasmanian

[kloratis]

That's kinda sad

[SuperDyzee]

@iobject

No she was not the last of the speakers of the language.

Many snippets of the language is still spoken today.

[SuperDyzee]

@kloratis

Well if she was a Tasmanian Aborigine one could conclude she spoke a Tasmanian Aboriginal Language.

[kloratis]

@SuperDyzee But can somebody understand was is she saying? Can somebody really speak like that today? I guess nobody does

[SuperDyzee]

@kloratis 

[livepuppies]

Hi lcdart. Thanks for your comment. I haven't had a chance to see the 'First Australians', lots of people seem to think it is a great series and I'm looking forward to seeing it when I get the chance.

[lcdart]

Thanks for uploading this to you tube. I have just finished watching episode two of "Frist Australians" and was interested to discover more about the experience of Tasmania's Aboriginal population during colonisation. It is incredible to be able to hear this voice from over 100 years ago!