Maps of Dirari

Australia at the Time of Contact: Pama-Nyungan



Australia at Time of Contact: Pama-Nyungan

Source:  
Data Source:   Tryon, Darrell. 2007. Australia:Time of Contact. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 144-145. Oxford: Routledge.

"Australian: Composite 2011". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships

Date Digitized:   30-06-2011

Map Description:
The largest language family in Australia is Pama-Nyungan. This map depicts Pama-Nyungan languages spoken in Australia at the time of contact, specifically calling attention to the Tangic, Karti, Wati and Yuulungu subgroups. Modern city names and locations are also included on this map, to contextualize the locations of the native languages.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.


Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Australia and Austronesia: at Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.

Australia: Eyre Region


Languages in the Eyre region, Australia

Data Sources:  
AIATSIS. 2000. Aboriginal Australia map. Australian Surveying and Land Information Group.
Horton, David. 1994. The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.)

MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Copyright Notice:  
AIATSIS
Date Downloaded:   2009

Map Description:
This map shows languages in the Eyre region in Australia. This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database, Horton (1994) and AIATSIS (2000).

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
All maps in this folder share data sources, and each maps shows a region in Australia. The regions were defined by using watershed basins (a basin is a drainage area geographically clearly separated from other basins) as a template, and then superimposing all the groups on that base and determining where such factors as culture, language and trade indicated the there were relationships between groups. (AIATSIS 2000)