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This page contains languages from both the Australian and Papuan families.

					updated 5-18-2001

The Australian family of languages covers those languages spoken on the continent of
Australia before the coming of the Europeans.  There are many, many Australian languages,
some of which have died out with no record, and are thus lost.  People in Australia refer to
the native peoples of Australia as "Aborigines," and to their languages as "Aboriginal
languages."  Australian English, sometimes called simply "Australian," should not be
confused with the languages belonging to the Australian family of languages.

• Anguthimri
• Dhuwala-Dhuwal
• Djabugay
• Euahlayi
• Gumbaynggir
• Gunya
• Guugu Yimidhirr
• Jindjiparndi
• Karierra
• Marduthunira
• Margany
• Martu-Wangka
• Mbabaram
• Narrinyeri
• Ngarla
• Ngarluma
• Njamal
• Njangumarda
• Njijapali
• Nugan
• Nyawaygi
• Panyjima
• Pitta-Pitta
• Talandji
• Tasmanian Languages
• Uradhi
• Wadjarri
• Waray Waray
• Wargamay
• Watjarri
• Woiwurrung
• Wulamba
• Yaygir
• Yukulta

Citations

427.994		Australian phrasebook. - [S.l.] : Lonely Planet, 1998
A938
1998		RID: 99-169462			ITEM #: aus00001

VT		Yakoana [videorecording] / Parabola Video in association with Under
09317			Your Nose Productions ; producer & director, Anh D. Crutcher.
			-- New York : Parabola Video, 1997
		RID: ---				paa00001

Euahlayi						updated 8-12-2002

	Euahlayi (Australian) is one of the aboriginal languages of Australia.  As such, it
belongs to the Australian family of languages.

398.20899915 	Wise women of the dreamtime : aboriginal tales of the ancestral
W813			powers / collected by K. Langloh Parker ; edited with
			commentary by Johanna Lambert. -- Rochester, Vt. :
			Inner Traditions International, 1993.
		RID: 93-377				ITEM #: eua00001

Narrinyeri					updated 5-17-2001

	Narrinyeri (Australian) is one of the aboriginal languages of Australia.  As such,
it belongs to the Australian family of languages.

572.994		Taplin, George, ed.
T173f			The folklore, manners, customs, and languages of the South
		Australian aborigines. - Adelaide :
		RID: 68-3716			ITEM #: aus00005

The languages comprising the Papuan family are found in New Guinea and on the adjacent islands. None of the Papuan languages have been publicized much, nor are they known very far beyond their native territory. The Papuan languages are numerous and are only now beginning to be studied; linguists have established at least ten branches so far, but have not fit all the Papuan languages into one of these. Branches recognized are: Trans-New Guinea, Sepik-Ramu, East Bird's Head, Torricelli, Left May, East Papuan, West Papuan, Amto-Musan, Kwomtari-Baibai, and Sko. Some linguists consider each of these branches a separate family.

• Arapesh
  
• Chambri
  
• Enga
  
• Fore
  
• Hua
  
• Jale
  
• Kalam
  
• Kumilabwaga
  
• Kwerba
  

VT		Yakoana [videorecording] / Parabola Video in association with Under
09317			Your Nose Productions ; producer & director, Anh D. Crutcher.
			-- New York : Parabola Video, 1997
		RID: ---				paa00001

Arapesh					updated 6-13-2001

	Arapesh (Papuan) belongs to the Papuan family of languages.  It is spoken in
Papua New Guinea.

499.1		Fortune, Reo, 1903-
F745a			Arapesh. -- New York : J. J. Augustine, 1942.
		RID: 42-16754			ITEM #: are00001

Chambri					updated 8-12-2002

	Chambri (Papuan) is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea.  As such,
it belongs to the Papuan family of languages.

305.89912	Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-
G396w			Twisted histories, altered contexts : representing the Chambri in a world
		system / Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington. -- Cambridge (England) :
		Cambridge University Press, 1991.
		RID: 90-43063			ITEM #: chm00001

Hua						updated 6-9-2004

	Hua (Papuan) belongs to the Papuan family of languages.  It is spoken in
Papua New Guinea.

306.40899912	Meigs, Anna S., 1943-
M512f			Food, sex, and pollution : a New Guinea religion.
		-- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1984
			Includes Hua glossary.
		RID: 82-12202		ITEM #: hua00001

Kumilabwaga					updated 8-12-2002

	Kumilabwaga (Papuan) is spoken in the Trobriand Islands, and therefore
belongs to the Papuan family of languages.

392		Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942
M251se.h		The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an
		ethnographic account of courtship, marriage, and family life among
		the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea. -- New York :
		Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.
			Includes a bilingual myth at back of book, in English and
		Kumilabwaga.
		RID: 62-793			ITEM #: kum00001

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