Australian languages
For works including Papuan languages spoken in Australia, an additional subject entry is made under Papuan languages.
Here are entered works on the aboriginal languages of Australia, and those languages of adjacent islands which agree with the continental languages in vocabulary and grammatical structure.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Australian languages -- Australia
- Australian languages -- Social aspects
- Kaurna language
- Pama-Nyungan languages
- Wororan languages
- Australian Aboriginal languages
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Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia (Pacific Linguistics Series C, #125; Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, c1995), by Alan Charles Dench (page images at HathiTrust)
- Warraparna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2016), by Rob Amery (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)
- Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia (Pacific Linguistics Series C, #125; Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, c1995), by Alan Charles Dench (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf; To Which is Prefixed a Collection of Grammatical Rules, Hitherto Ascertained (Adelaide: G. Dehane, 1844), by C. W. Schürmann (PDF at Adelaide)
- Clamor Schürmann's Barngarla Grammar: A Commentary on the First Section of A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language (revised edition; Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2018), by Mark Clendon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf; To Which is Prefixed a Collection of Grammatical Rules, Hitherto Ascertained (Adelaide: G. Dehane, 1844), by C. W. Schürmann (PDF at Adelaide)
- Worrorra: A Language of the North-West Kimberley Coast (c2014), by Mark Clendon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- Revival- Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)
- Worrorra: A Language of the North-West Kimberley Coast (c2014), by Mark Clendon (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- The Fijian Language (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1985), by Albert J. Schütz (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Ai Vola Tabu, Sa Volai Kina na Veiyalayalati Makawa Kei na Veiylalayalati Vou (Fijian Bible, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and Their Spirits of the Dead (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Taravatu Matamata Iesu Keriso Ena, Ita Eda Lohiabada Bunai, Ita Ihamaurida: Motu Gadodia e Hahegeregerea (New Testament in Motu; London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1901)
- Carolinian-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), ed. by Frederick H. Jackson and Jeffrey C. Marck (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Trukese-English and English-Trukese Dictionary, With Notes on Pronunciation, Grammar, Vocabularies, Phrases (Pearl Harbor, HI: U. S. Naval Military Govt., 1947), by Samuel H. Elbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kusaiean-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1976), by Ki-dong Yi (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Rantak: ak, Jet Bwebwenato Kin Men Ko Ilo Baibel Ajiri Redrik re Maron Bok im Jela Kake (in Marshallese; Boston: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1882)
- Mokilese-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by Sheldon P. Harrison and Salich Y. Albert (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Mokilese Reference Grammar (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1976), by Sheldon P. Harrison, contrib. by Salich Y. Albert (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Woleaian-English Dictionary (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1976), by Ho-min Sohn and Anthony F. Tawerilmang (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Woleaian Reference Grammar (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1975), by Ho-min Sohn, contrib. by Anthony F. Tawerilmang (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Yapese Reference Grammar (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by John Thayer Jensen, contrib. by Leo D. Pugram, John Baptist Iou, and Raphael Defeg (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- The Journal of the Polynesian Society (partial serial archives)
- Journal of a Canoe Voyage Along the Kauai Palis, Made in 1845; and The History of the Hawaiian Mission Press, With a Bibliography of the Earlier Publications (Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society #14; Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Print, 1908), by Gorham D. Gilman, Howard M. Ballou, and George Robert Carter
- Outline of Hawaiian Physical Therapeutics (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #126; Honolulu: The Museum, 1934), by E. S. Craighill Handy, Mary Kawena Pukui, and Katherine Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kepelino's Traditions of Hawaii (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 95; Honolulu: The Museum, 1932), by Kepelino, ed. by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hawaiian Proverbs and Riddles (in English and Hawaiian; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #77; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Henry P. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kapingamarangi Lexicon (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1974), by Michael D. Lieber and Kalio H. Dikepa (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)
- A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900 (Dominion Museum monograph #7; 1924), by Herbert W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Marquesan Legends (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #69; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by E. S. Craighill Handy (1971 reprint: multiple formats at archive.org)
- Te Pito te Henua: or, Easter Island (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891), by William Judah Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Ethnology of Easter Island (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #160; Honolulu: The Museum, 1940), by Alfred Métraux (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mangaian Society (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #122; Honolulu: The Museum, 1934), by Peter Henry Buck
- A Tahitian and English Dictionary, With Introductory Remarks on the Polynesian Language, and a Short Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect (Tahiti: Printed at the London Missionary Society's Press, 1855), by John Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A New Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect of the Polynesian Language, Together With Brief Reading Exercises (in English and Tahitian; 1919), by Ernest G. Rossiter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Tahitian and English Dictionary, With Introductory Remarks on the Polynesian Language, and a Short Grammar of the Tahitian Dialect (Tahiti: Printed at the London Missionary Society's Press, 1855), by John Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ancient Tahiti (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #48; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by Teuira Henry, contrib. by J. M. Orsmond (page images in French Polynesia)
- Tales and Poems of Tonga (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #46; Honolulu: The Museum, 1928), by E. E. V. Collocott (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Cult of Kiho-Tumu (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #111; Honolulu: The Museum, 1933), by J. F. Stimson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ma Djooungu-Madutu awi Boku ma Djarita (in Tabaru; Utrecht: J. van Boekhoven, 1913), contrib. by J. Fortgens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)