widely-spoken Indigenous languages. Other distinctively Australian languages include the Australian sign language Auslan, Indigenous sign languages, and Norf'k-Pitcairn...
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Trans-Fly languages, in particular Meriam Mir of the Torres Strait Islands, as well as the Papuan Tip Austronesian languages. Most Australian languages belong...
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Afro-Asiatic languages and languages of Asia. Samoan English is also influencing Australian English. Other ethnolects include those of Lebanese and Vietnamese...
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Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia. The name...
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South America, Tiwi in Australia and Burushaski in Pakistan are all examples of such languages. The exact number of language isolates is yet unknown...
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its list of endangered languages. In the 1970s, the Norfolk community and specialists from mainland Australia noted that the Norfuk language was falling...
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The Tasmanian languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania, used by Aboriginal Tasmanians. The languages were last used for daily...
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is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Union. It is also the official language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union...
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much of the complex declensional system present in the older languages. In the Kathmandu Valley (then known as Nepal Mandala), Nepali language inscriptions...
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national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia. Also, national languages are not...
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Australian languages, and Polynesian languages. One of the first dictionaries of Australian slang was Karl Lentzner's Dictionary of the Slang-English of Australia...
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supports other language projects around the country as a funding body. The Mobile Language Team in South Australia lists 46 languages or dialects on its...
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Chinese Australian identity. Chinese is a widely taught second language in Australian schools, and is one of the languages mentioned in the Australian Curriculum...
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Alor-Pantar languages: Linguistic context, history and typology.". In Klamer, Marian (ed.). Alor Pantar languages: History and Typology. Berlin: Language Sciences...
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a digital archive of literature in endangered languages of Australia, containing works in over forty Australian Aboriginal languages from the Northern...
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significant enough to treat them as two separate languages within the Central Zone (Hindustani) group of languages. The Dom and the Rom therefore likely descend...
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than 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact. The National Indigenous Languages Survey (NILS)...
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histories of Aboriginal peoples, including Dreaming stories, as well as Australian rock art and linguistic features of the many Aboriginal languages. The routes...
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Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia. This connection may be...
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Auslan (redirect from Australian sign language)
of Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community. Auslan is related to British Sign Language (BSL)...
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of the Trans-Fly languages spoken on the nearby south coast of New Guinea and the only Papuan language spoken on Australian territory. Both languages...
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numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling out of use...
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the time of European colonisation of Australia, the Aboriginal people consisted of complex cultural societies with more than 250 languages and varying...
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there was a huge variety of languages, including sign languages. Cultural traditions and beliefs as well as historical tellings of actual events are passed...
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Linguistic homeland (category Origin hypotheses of ethnic groups)
Heimat 'home') of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages. A proto-language is the reconstructed...
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Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes simply Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early...
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dialect of the English language spoken in Australia Australian Aboriginal languages The Australian, a newspaper Australiana, things of Australian origins...
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the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia. The...
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Avoidance speech (redirect from Mother-in-law languages)
speech is found in many Australian Aboriginal languages and Austronesian languages as well as some North American languages such as Anishinaabe-mowin...
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Linguistic imperialism (redirect from Dominant languages)
employed in the function of official (state) languages in Eurasia, while only non-indigenous imperial (European) languages in the "Rest of the World". In the...
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