Maps of Djauanic

Australia at the Time of Contact: Non-Pama-Nyungan



Australia at Time of Contact: Non-Pama-Nyungan

Source:  
Data 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-JUN-2011

Map Description:
The largest language family in Australia is Pama-Nyungan. Most non-Pama-Nyungan languages are located in the north-western portion of the country, closest to Papua New Guinea. Despite their proximity to Papua New Guinea, these languages are a part of the Australian language family, not the Austronesian language family. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages depicted on this map are divided into subgroups, and the map is designed to be layered with the 'Australia: Time of Contact' Pama-Nyungan map, for a complete depiction of the languages spoken in Australia at the time of contact.

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.


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Australia: Language Groups (Oates and Oates)



Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Groups

Source:  Oates, William J. and Lynette F. Oates, editors. 1970. A revised linguistic survey of Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 12. Canberra: Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies.
Adapted from a basic classification prepared in 1966 by G.N. O'Grady, S.A. Wurm, and K.L. Hale; drawn by R.M. Watt for the Dept. of Linguistics, Univeristy of Victoria, B.C., Canada.

Copyright Status:   Copyright Protected.


Map Description:
This map shows the aboriginal language groups in Australia based on the map prepared by Oates and Oates and supplemented with information from the following source: "Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Six" by Geoffrey N. O'Grady and C.F. and F.M. Voegelin.

Other resources related to this project:
Capell, A. "Languages of Arnhem Land, North Australia," (1942). Oceania, XIII. 24-49.

O'Grady, Geoffrey N. and C.F. and F.M. Voegelin. (1966). "Languages of the World: Indo-Pacific Fascicle Six," Anthropological Linguistics, 8:2, 1966.

Tindale, Norman B. (1940). Map of Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, Adelaide.
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Families (Oates and Oates)
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Locations and Tribal Groups (Dixon and Blake)
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Subgroups (Oates and Oates)
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Languages and Dialects



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