Last known speaker of a Tasmanian language (1834–1905)
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Fanny Cochrane Smith, (ca. 1834 - 1905) was a Tasmanian Aborigine, born December 1834 after relocation of Tasmania's indigenous population to Wybalena, Flinders Island. She is well known for her wax-cylinder recordings of Aboriginal songs, made in 1903, which comprise the only audio recordings of an indigenous Tasmanian language. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fanny+Cochrane+Smith">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).