How to Pronounce Fanny Cochrane Smith
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Dec 01, 1834 Tasmania, Australia Died on 24 Feb 1905 (aged 70)
Last known speaker of a Tasmanian language
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About Fanny Cochrane Smith
- Fanny Cochrane Smith (December 1834 – 24 February 1905) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian, born in December 1834.
- She is considered to be the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language, and her wax cylinder recordings of songs are the only audio recordings of any of Tasmania's indigenous languages.
- Her recordings were inducted into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register in 2017.Although there has been dispute as to whether she or Truganini was the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal, Smith was officially recognised as the last Tasmanian Aboriginal by the Government in 1889.
