Nuenonne language

{{Short description|Extinct Aboriginal language of Tasmania}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}}

{{also|Bruny Island language}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Nuenonne

|altname=(Mainland) Southeast Tasmanian

|region=south-eastern mainland Tasmania

|ethnicity=Bruny tribe of Tasmanians

|extinct=19th century

|familycolor=australian

|fam1=Eastern Tasmanian

|fam2=Bruny

|iso3=xpf

|aiatsis=T5

|aiatsisname=(includes Bruny Island)

|glotto=sout1439

|glottorefname=South-Eastern-Tasmanian-Hinterland

}}

Nuenonne ("Nyunoni"), or Southeast Tasmanian, is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.Claire Bowern, September 2012, "The riddle of Tasmanian languages", Proc. R. Soc. B, 279, 4590–4595, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1842 It was spoken along the southeastern mainland of the island by the Bruny tribe.

Mainland Southeast Tasmanian is attested by 202 words collected by François Péron (1802) and by 573 words in various vocabularies collected by the D’Entrecasteaux expedition of 1792–1793 and published by Labillardière in 1800 and by Rossel in 1808.Bowern (2012), supplement The French transcriptions of these sources differ from the English respellings seen in the records of other varieties of Tasmanian.

Truganini spoke Nuenonne.