Australian Natural Languages Linguistics

Australian

This is the subcategory for languages native to Australia and the Torres Straits Islands. There are approximately 258 known languages in this family, a large percentage of which are endangered or extinct. The major families of languages that will be found underneath this category are: Yiwaidjan

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• - Essay by Jan Wohlgemut discussing the social surroundings and grammatical change of present-day Dyirbal as compared to the language Dixon described in 1968.
  
• - Details on the Australian Linguistic Society including information on membership, mailing list, projects, conferences and links to related sites.
  
• - Dictionary for a language spoken in the Cape York peninsula in North Queensland, Australia.
  
• - Article on the efforts of Christobel Swann to conserve Australian Aboriginal languages. Good discussion on some of the issues that make preserving endangered languages difficult to achieve.
  
• - Research on nominative/accusative case-marking pattern in Martuthunira that distinguishes it from most of the non-accusative languages of the Pilbara.
  
• - Computer-based materials about Australian Indigenous languages including dictionaries, grammars and teaching materials for about 300 languages.
  
• - Provides information for prospective students of Australian Aboriginal languages, particularly Pitjantjatjara, and links to other resources.
  
• - WAV format sound files for Yindjibarndi vocabulary for body parts and some animals.
  
• - Information on the extinct Garawa (or Garrwa) language, which used to be spoken in the Gulf of Carpentaria region close to the Northern Territory - Queensland border.
  
• - Australian university departments with linguists, web pages and other Australian linguistics-related links.
  
• - Dictionary and sample text for Wagiman, an aboriginal language spoken in Australia's Northern Territory.
  
• - National indigenous languages directory maintained by the Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
  
• - Short list of Ayapathu vocabulary.
  
• - Details on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission language maintenance programs.
  
• - Place names of the Lake Macquarie region of Australia.
  
• - Dictionary for the Pakanh language of central Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, Australia. Includes vocabulary, glosses or translations and links to related cultural materials.
  
• - Language materials from the Flint papers including information on symbols, abbreviations, phonemes, orthographic conventions, recording practice,s and bibliography.
  
• - Interactive dictionary and language data base for the Kaurna language.
  
• - Information on the Yanyula language (phonology, grammar, etc.), traditionally spoken along the north coast of the Northern Territory and in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands.
  
• - Guide to internet resources for Australian indigenous languages.
  
• - Paper discussing what is desirable or necessary database technology to develop browsing interfaces to lexical databases for indigenous languages based on experiences developing such for the Kirrkirr language.
  
• - Links, maps and specialty pages for Australian languages.
  
• - Acoustic study of intonation in Dyirbal, an almost extinct Australian language.
  
• - A bilingual school in a large Aboriginal community in central Arnhem Land on the north coast of the Northern Territory of Australia with contact details and language map of the region.
  
• - Small glossary of basic words.
  
• - A brief description of the culture, society and territory of the Kaurna people of what is now Adelaide, in South Australia. Also contains bibliographical sources for further research.
  
• - Vocabulary of the Kutthung or Kattang dialect once spoken along the southern bank of the Karuah river and south shore of Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.
  
• - Internet guide to Australian indigenous languages. Comprehensive site with dictionaries, language resources, organization contacts, wordlists, sound files and links to related sites.
  
• - 1996 paper by Rachel Nordlinger and Joan Bresnan, arguing that correct analysis of the complex and unusual tense system in Wambaya must treat tense values as a composite of three additional primative binary features. the text of the paper is available fro
  
• - Small dictionary of Arrernte words for animals and objects with links to a language map of the region and additional Arrernte vocabulary lists.
  
  

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