Australian Aboriginal Language Material from the Flint Papers

Guide to Using the Language Material

Symbols
Abbreviations
Phonemes and Orthographic Conventions
Recording Practices
A Note on Language
Templates
Bibliography


Languages

For each language, readers can access background information about the language and its speakers, and a bibliography of other sources. For some languages there are photographs of people and places associated with the language. A table of sounds and orthographic symbols, and a brief grammatical sketch are, where possible, also given. We have also included information about the people who provided the language material, and about the circumstances in which the data was collected.

Click on language names.


Yanyula

Garrwa

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The publishing on the internet of the Aboriginal language data from the Flint papers is a project supervised by Dr Mary Laughren

Acknowledgements

The sound recordings for this project were digitized from the original tape-recordings by the University of Queensland Language Laboratories.

This project has been financed by the following grants:

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, Small Grant No. 99/ARCS188G to Dr Mary Laughren.

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