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	Australian Aboriginal languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is largely a result of a concerted effort by past Australian governments to eradicate Aboriginal culture and languages, through punishment, forced relocations, sterilization, and forced removal of children from their families.
		In some languages the persons in between the accusative and ergative inflections (such as second person, or third-person human) may be tripartite: that is, marked overtly as either ergative or accusative in transitive clauses, but not marked as either in intransitive clauses.
		Most Australian languages are commonly held to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, a family by no means unproblematic but still accepted by most linguists (with R.M.W. Dixon as a noted exception).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages (1543 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		Population estimates are hampered by the fact that Aboriginal people often live in isolated area and that most of them are bilingual with varying degrees of proficiency in their Aboriginal language.
		Aboriginal languages have been grouped into 28 groups, all of which are thought to be related.
		The future of the Aboriginal languages is uncertain, but the good news is that some of them now have a written form, and the Aboriginal people as well as the Australian society are concerned about the loss of these languages.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/aboriginalLanguagesofAustralia.html (708 words)

	Australian Aboriginal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Australian Aborigines is a name used to collectively describe most of the indigenous peoples of the Australian continent and its nearby islands.
		As of June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident Indigenous population to be 458,500 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage.
		The Aboriginal population was decimated by British colonisation begun in 1788.
	www.art-merchant-intl.com /Aboriginal-History.htm (4081 words)

	Aboriginal Languages - Aboriginal Art Online - page 3 of 3
		Australian Aboriginal languages are not hard to pronounce, once a few basic principles are understood.
		Australian languages are now being written in a phonetic alphabet, with one symbol for each sound wherever possible (for ng we have to use two, since the Roman alphabet has no suitable letter).
		Aboriginal media associations, which broadcast radio and television programs in Aboriginal languages, are another important means of preservation.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /culture/language3.php (790 words)

	Aboriginal languages - Aboriginal Art Online- page 1 of 3
		There are nearly 100 Aboriginal languages in everyday use, but only 20 of these are strong in the sense that they have large communities of speakers and children are learning them as their first language.
		Many of Australia's Aboriginal languages face a bleak future, although there are vigorous efforts by communities to retain their language heritage wherever possible.
		However, all Aboriginal languages are in danger because of the decline in number of speakers and with many it is only older people who still speak the language.
	www.aboriginalartonline.com /culture/language.php (286 words)

	Aboriginal Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Language and culture: a matter of survival: report of the inquiry into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language maintenance.
		Moorhouse, M. A vocabulary and outline of the grammatical structure of the Murray River language: spoken by the natives of South Australia from Wellington on the Murray, as far as the Rufus.
		For languages from communities outside of South Australia, search the Library Catalogue using the subject headings Australian Languages and Aboriginal Australians Languages or conduct a Keyword search on the language group you are looking for.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /site/text_only.cfm?nav_id=1970 (988 words)

	Australian languages on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES [Australian languages] aboriginal languages spoken on the continent of Australia.
		The exact number of these languages and their dialects is not known, but has been estimated at about 200.
		Language in court: the acceptance of linguistic evidence about Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Australlang.asp (390 words)

	SACSA framework for Aboriginal languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The inclusion of a specific focus on Australian Indigenous languages in the SACSA Framework matches a similar focus placed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures throughout the Framework, and acknowledges the unique place the languages hold in Australia’s heritage and its cultural and educational life.
		Additional to the language learning focus of individual children and students is a focus on group and cultural outcomes and, most importantly, a concern and an advocacy for the very survival of the languages themselves.
		Australian Indigenous languages affirm a distinct and explicit presence in the South Australian curriculum
	www.nexus.edu.au /teachstud/lotefocus/abl_lang_sacsa.htm (362 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		Ling 2025 Australian Aboriginal Languages (University of Queensland)
		An introduction to the structure of Australian languages; considers issues in the study of their grammar and history.
		The subject is an investigation of the phonological, grammatical and semantic features of Australian Aboriginal languages through the study of a particular language against the background of research on Australian languages generally.
	www.dnathan.com /VL/eMUcat_5.htm (769 words)

	Manikay.Com - Australian Aboriginal Languages
		Aboriginal languages were not written and there is still some difficulties with spelling conventions.
		Australians are particularly ignorant of their indigenous languages and there are relatively very few non-Aboriginal speakers of Aboriginal languages.
		Knowing a language can be particularly useful, in fact, probably essential, when working in the fields of ethnobotany and ethnoecology.
	www.manikay.com /didjeridu/langu.shtml (630 words)

	Australian languages
		The best collection of links relating to Australian languages is in the WWW VL - Aboriginal Languages of Australia, and includes for instance the AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive (ASEDA) catalogue (note supplement).
		Autumn 2006 LAGB Language Tutorial, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 30th August to 2nd September: Iwaidja, given by Professor Nick Evans (University of Melbourne), who also delivers The Henry Sweet Lecture 2006: 'The pleasures and pains of careful articulation: stable nasal-stop clusters in Australian languages as a typological conundrum'
		A Typology of the Nominal Dual: Evidence from Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Semitic and Australian Languages.
	www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust (553 words)

	Australian Indigenous languages
		Topics to be discussed: Language acquisition; multilingualism; code-switching; language variation: social and regional; language standardisation and non-standard dialects; language change; conversational style; language as a marker of social identity; language change; pidgins, creoles and Aboriginal English; sign languages; written languages; literacy; language in education; language and culture; language and the law.
		Research is conducted at Yaruman and Balgo where children speak an Aboriginal language as their mother tongue and are attending a school where both the Aboriginal language and English are taught.
		It addresses the large variety of Aboriginal languages in Western Australia and acknowledges the desire of Aboriginal people for the languages of their heritage to be taught in primary schools.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/LangHome.html (1977 words)

	GeoNative - Australian aboriginal languages
		Aboriginal languages were traditionally spoken by relatively small groups, but each had its territory, culture and transmission assured.
		Dyirbal was a language shared by several groups of Northern Queensland, south of Cairns, in the rain forests of the area.
		Location of Aboriginal language in at least one part of Australia (Western Australia), by sections.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/guugu.html (821 words)

	Aboriginal Languages of Australia
		Less than 20 languages are strong, and even these are endangered: the others have been destroyed, live in the memories of the elderly, or are being revived by their communities.
		Created and maintained by David Nathan, Endangered Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, (and formerly University of Tsukuba, Japan and University of Sydney).
		The Aboriginal Languages of Australia Virtual Library was founded on 6 January 1996.
	www.dnathan.com /VL/austLang.htm (291 words)

	Indigenous Languages Directory
		Language Courses: Short courses in Central Australian Aboriginal languages are run throughout the year for the general public.
		Yaitya Warra Wodli Language Centre Incorporated in partnership with the State Education Department through the National L.O.T.E. program is actively involved in the development of Aboriginal language classes in the secondary education system.
		The Noongar Language and Culture Centre is governed by a regional management committee which are residents of the regions whish constitutes the boundaries of the Noongar Region.
	www.fatsil.org /links/nild.htm (3130 words)

	Articles - Australian Aboriginal languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Australian languages form a language area or ´´Sprachbund´´;, sharing much of their vocabulary and having similarly unusual phonologies across the entire continent.
		A typical Australian phonological inventory includes just three vowels, usually which are so much more common elsewhere in the world.
		Although not all subgroupings are mentioned, there is enough detail to fill in the rest using a standard reference such as ´´Ethnologue: Languages of the World´´.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Australian_Aboriginal_languages (1471 words)

	Aboriginal Australian links - Internet links
		These are grouped by state, language name, and type of resource, such as dictionaries, courses and other categories.
		The Archive is available to language community members and to researchers in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
		Biographical information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Dawn, New dawn and other magazines is also indexed by the INFOKOORI Database.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /links/abor.cfm (1025 words)

	Bibliography for Australian Aboriginal Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bolger, A. Aboriginal women and violence : a report for the Criminology Research Council and the Northern Territory Commissioner of Police.
		Long, T. 'The development of government Aboriginal policy: the effect of administrative changes, 1829-1977' in R. and C. Berndt, Aborigines of the West: Their Past and Their Present.
		Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to the linguistic symposium, part B, held in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Biennial...
	www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/bib-abn.htm (2002 words)

	Tasmanian languages - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Tasmanian languages are a group of aborigine languages spoken in the island of Tasmania, Australia, made extinct in 1905, with the death of Fanny Cochrane Smith.
		Only little of the languages is known and no conclusive relationships with other languages were found so far, although it has been proposed that they are related to other Australian Aboriginal languages, mainly based on some phonological similarities.
		On the other hand, Joseph Greenberg proposed an Indo-Pacific languages superfamily also containing Andamanese languages and Papuan languages but not Australian Aboriginal languages.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Tasmanian_languages (177 words)

	Australian languages
		Australian languages, aboriginal languages spoken on the continent of Australia.
		Oceanic languages - Oceanic languages, aboriginal languages spoken in the region known as Oceania.
		Encyclopedia: Language and Linguistics - Encyclopeadia articles concerning Language and Linguistics.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0805384.html (319 words)

	Handbook of WA Aboriginal languages, south of the Kimberley
		Handbook of WA Aboriginal languages, south of the Kimberley
		Information on individual languages can be found via a geographic, alphabetic, or language family index.
		The production and publication of the printed version of this data was supported by the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, under a grant from the Commonwealth Schools Commission, the WA Arts Board and the Western Australian Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/WA/contents.htm (315 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Studies: Forty Years On. Ken Hale and Australian languages.(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ken Hale and Australian languages J. Simpson, D. Nash, M. Laughren, P. Austin and B. Alpher (eds) The Australian National University, Canberra (Pacific Linguistics), 2001, xvii+528pp., ISBN 0 858 8352 4X
		Forty Years On honours one of the pioneering figures in the study of Australian Aboriginal languages, Kenneth Locke Hale, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) until his retirement in 1999.
		As the title suggests, the book marks forty years of his involvement in the documentation and analysis of Aboriginal languages which...
	highbeam.com /doc/1G1:127621964/Forty+Years+On.+Ken+Hale+and+... (195 words)

	Ethnologue, Languages of the World
		Over 12,000 citations spanning 70 years of SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages.
		Books about languages and cultures of the world for education, research, and reference.
		Computer resources including an extensive library for language researchers and software tools and fonts.
	www.ethnologue.com (74 words)

	175-417 Australian Aboriginal Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		An investigation of the phonological, grammatical and semantic features of Australian Aboriginal languages through the study of a particular language against the background of research on Australian languages generally.
		Languages studied in previous years have included Kayardild (Qld), Mayali (N.T.), Yawurru and Nyulnyul (both W.A.).
		Four assignments and an essay totalling no more than 5000 words at 3rd year level and 6000 words at 4th year level.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /HB/1998/subjects/175-417.html (122 words)

	Workshop on Australian Aboriginal languages 14-16 March 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Workshop on Australian Aboriginal languages 14-16 March 2003
		2.10-2.50 Janet Sharp Purpose and Possession in Southern Kimberley Languages
		In case anyone has any difficulty, the phone numbers for the houses are: Woodside (03) 5368 6633, Hillside (03) 5368 6603.
	www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/blackwood03.html (289 words)

	The School of English, Media Studies and Art History at The University of Queensland
		Home » Undergraduate Studies » Courses offered in the School » English »; LING2025 Australian Aboriginal Languages
		This course aims to examine one Australian Aboriginal language in some detail, comparing it with other Australian languages and with English.
		Topics include the phonology and grammar, the way meaning is encoded, socio-linguistic variation, language change, sign language, working with language speakers and old documents.
	www.uq.edu.au /emsah?page=20288&pid=19518 (118 words)

	Aboriginal Australia Art Culture and Didgeridoo
		Our Aboriginal Culture Centre is internationally acclaimed and best known for its on-line art and cultural sales, award winning Aboriginal tours (TO-DO World Tourism Award) and Red Centre Dreaming Aboriginal Dance performers.
		Exporting to 76 countries products on the shopping cart include Aboriginal art, Didgeridoos, Boomerangs, CDs, school education materials, clothing and artifacts.
		If you need any help we have LIVE SERVICE centre at EMAIL or telephone +61 401 331 251.
	www.aboriginalaustralia.com (105 words)

	MavicaNET - Dictionaries of Aboriginal Australian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Katalog / Kultur / Språk / Isolated Languages (of Uncertain Kinship) / Aboriginal Australian Languages / Dictionaries of Aboriginal Australian Languages
		Katalog / Kultur / Språk / Ordbøker - språkvis / Dictionaries of Aboriginal Australian Languages
		Catalogue of electronic data files held in ASEDA - the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/nor/22303.html (77 words)

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