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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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• Aboriginal Australians -- Languages
• Oceania -- Languages

• Australian languages -- Australia
• Australian languages -- Australia, Northern
• Australian languages -- Bibliography
• Australian languages -- Dialects
• Australian languages -- Dictionaries
• Australian languages -- Etymology
• Australian languages -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• Australian languages -- Grammar
• Australian languages -- Historiography
• Australian languages -- Influence on English
• Australian languages -- Lexicography
• Australian languages -- Northern Territory
• Australian languages -- Periodicals
• Australian languages -- Pronoun
• Australian languages -- Social aspects
• Australian languages -- South Australia
• Australian languages -- Study and teaching
• Australian languages -- Victoria
• Australian languages -- Western Australia
• Daly languages
• Djingili language
• Gunwingguan languages
• Kaurna language
• Kurung language
• Malgana language
• Nyulnyulan languages
• Pama-Nyungan languages
• Tasmanian languages
• Tiwi language (Australia)
• Wororan languages
• Yabula Yabula language
• Yorta Yorta language
• English language -- Dictionaries -- Australian languages

• Australian Aboriginal languages

• The Yindjibarndi language (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1982), by F. J. F. Wordick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparative studies in northern Kimberley languages (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1984), by Arthur Capell and H. H. J. Coate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of Australian languages. (Australian National University Press, 1979), by Barry J. Blake and Robert M. W. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian linguistic studies (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1979), by S. A. Wurm (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Australian language as spoken by the Awabakal, the people of Awaba or Lake Macquarie (near Newcastle, New South Wales) : being an account of their language, traditions, and customs (C. Potter, Govt. Print, 1892), by L. E. Threlkeld and John Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The folklore, manners, customs (E. Spiller, government printer, 1879), by George Taplin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages (D. Nutt; [etc., etc], 1899), by John Mathew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian Aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia. (George Robertson, 1981), by James Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language and history : essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1990), by Peter Austin, L. A. Hercus, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Dept. of Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boundary rider : essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997), by Michael Walsh, D. T. Tryon, and G. N. O'Grady (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Warrnambool language : a consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool area of the Western District of Victoria based on nineteenth-century sciences (Pacific Linguistics, 2003), by Barry J. Blake and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ken Hale and Australian languages. (Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2001., 2001), by Barry Alpher, Peter Austin, Mary Laughren, David Nash, and Jane Helen Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia : comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region (Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2003), by Nicholas Evans, Australian National University. Centre for Research on Language Change, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacific linguistics. Series A: Occasional papers. (Canberra., 1963), by Linguistic Circle of Canberra and Australian National University (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines of Victoria: with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania. (J. Ferres, gov't printer; [etc., etc.], 1878), by R. Brough Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The folklore, manners, customs, and languages of the South Australian aborigines: gathered from inquiries made by authority of South Australian government. (Adelaide, 1879), by George Taplin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studi sul gruppo linguistico andamanese-papua-australiano (Treves, Beltrami, 1909), by Riccardo Gatti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde, in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair ... (Aus der kaiserlichköniglichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, in Commission bei K. Gerold's Sohn, 1861), by Novara (Austrian frigate) and Karl Scherzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kámilarói, and other Australian languages (T. Richards, government printer, 1875), by Wm. Ridley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A key to the structure of the aboriginal language; being an analysis of the particles used as affixes, to form the various modifications of the verbs; shewing the essential powers ... of the language spoken by the aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter River, Lake Macquarie, etc., New South Wales. Together with comparisons of Polynesian and other dialects. (Kemp and Fairfax, 1850), by L. E. Threlkeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocabulary of the language spoken by the aborigines of the Southern and Eastern portions of the settled districts of South Australia, viz., by the tribes in the vicinity of Encounter Bay, and (with slight variations) by those extending along the coast to the Eastward around Lake Alexandrina and for distance up the River Murray: preceded by a grammar, showing the construction of the language as far as at present known (J. Allen, 1843), by H. A. E. Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A key to the structure of the aboriginal language : being an analysis of the particles used as affixes, to form the various modifications of the verbs, shewing the essential power, abstract roots, and other peculiarities of the language spoken by the aborigines in the vicinity of Hunter river, Lake Macquarie, etc., New South Wales (Kemp and Fairfax, 1850), by L. E. Threlkeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines of Victoria, with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania. Compiled from various sources for the govt. of Victoria. (J. Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1878), by R. Brough Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die gliederung der australischen sprachen; geographische, bibliographische, linguistische grundzüge der erforschung der australischen sprachen (Druck und verlag der Mechitharisten-buchdruckerei, 1919), by Wilhelm Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Nouvelle-Nursie: histoire d'une colonie bénédictine dans l'Australie occidentale (1846-1878) (Lecoffre fils et cie., 1879), by Théophile Bérengier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers in Australian linguistics. no. 1 (Australian National University, 1967), by David Glasgow and Kathleen Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia. (George Robertson, 1881), by James Dawson and Biodiversity Heritage Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proto mirndi : a discontinuous language family in Northern Australia (Pacific Linguistics, 2008), by Mark Harvey and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• OZBIB : a linguistic bibliography of Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands (Pacific Linguistics ;, 1999), by Lois Carrington, Geraldine Triffitt, and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)
• The library of his excellency Sir George Grey. Philology. (Sold by Trübner, 1858), by George Grey and W. H. I. Bleek (page images at HathiTrust)

• Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide. (Pub. by the authors, at the Native location, 1840), by C. G. Teichelmann, C. W. Schürmann, and C. G. Schürmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in western Australia; and also A descriptive vocabulary of the language of the aborigines. (M. Walbrook, 1884), by George Fletcher Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the aborigines of western Australia, embodying much interesting information regarding the ... natives and the natural history of the country. (W. S. Orr & co., 1842), by George Fletcher Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian aboriginal native words and their meanings. (Commonwealth of Australia, 1925), by Sydney John Endacott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide. (Pub. by the authors, at the Native location, 1840), by C. G. Teichelmann, C. W. Schürmann, and C. G. Schürmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Encountering Aboriginal languages : studies in the history of Australian linguistics (Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2008), by William McGregor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Australian aboriginal lexicography (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1983), by Peter Austin (page images at HathiTrust)

• A grammar of Wambaya, Northern Australia (Pacific Linguistics, 1998), by Rachel Nordlinger and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grammar of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia) (Pacific Linguistics, 1998), by Rachel Nordlinger and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Papers in Australian linguistics (Australian National University, 1967), by Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Department of Linguistics and Linguistic Circle of Canberra (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Personalpronomina in den australischen Sprachen (In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, 1919), by Wilhelm Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die personalpronomina in den australischen sprachen. Mit einem anhang: Die interrogativpronomina in den australischen sprachen. (In kommission bei A. Hölder, 1919), by Wilhelm Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Indigenous language and social identity : papers in honour of Michael Walsh (Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, 2010., 2010), by Ilana Mushin, Mark Harvey, Rod Gardner, Brett J. Baker, Michael Walsh, and Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Victorian languages : a late survey (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1986), by L. A. Hercus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Daly family languages, Australia (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1974), by D. T. Tryon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bininj Gun-wok : a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2003), by Nicholas Evans and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recherches sur les dialectes tasmaniens (E. de Broise, 1880), by Hyacinthe Charencey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines of Tasmania (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890), by H. Ling Roth, J. G. Garson, and Marion E. Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines of Tasmania (F. King & Sons, 1899), by H. Ling Roth, J. G. Garson, James Backhouse Walker, and Marion E. Butler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tiwi today : a study of language change in a contact situation (Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1987), by Jennifer Lee and Australian National University. Research School of Pacific Studies. Dept. of Linguistics (page images at HathiTrust)

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