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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Australia's Original Languages : An Introduction
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'This introduction to the languages of Aboriginal Australia provides a straightforward guide to their sound structure, word building and wide-ranging vocabulary, and highlights distinctive grammatical features. It also explains how language is related to culture including kinship relationships, gender systems and naming conventions. With examples from over thirty languages and anecdotes illustrating language use, it is the indispensable starting point for anyone interested in Aboriginal languages.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Table of Contents

    1 Many distinct languages 
    2 Each language has several dialects 
    3 Language doing its job 
    4 Nothing primitive here 
    5 Knowing who your relations are 
    6 Who are you talking to? 
    7 Getting your tongue around it 
    8 Putting the bits together
    9 Remarkable genders 
    10 Oodles of words 
    11 Are there any language links? 
    12 In recent times 
    13 The languages today 

    Acknowledgements 
    Sources and notes 
    References 
    Index

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2019 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2019.

      ISBN: 9781760875237

Works about this Work

April in Nonfiction Sarah Burnside , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , April 2020;

— Review of Australia's Original Languages : An Introduction R. M. W. Dixon , 2019 reference ; A Novel Idea Fiona McGregor , 2019 single work autobiography
Gogobera Bruce Moore , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 413 2019; (p. 20, 22)

— Review of Australia's Original Languages : An Introduction R. M. W. Dixon , 2019 reference

'Bob Dixon has researched Australian Indigenous languages since the 1960s, has constructed grammars of five languages, and has written numerous scholarly books and articles on Aboriginal languages. His latest book is directed at the general reader, and it springs from his frustration at what he sees as the persistent and continuing misunderstandings in the wider Australian community about the nature and history of Australia’s Indigenous languages.' (Introduction)

Gogobera Bruce Moore , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 413 2019; (p. 20, 22)

— Review of Australia's Original Languages : An Introduction R. M. W. Dixon , 2019 reference

'Bob Dixon has researched Australian Indigenous languages since the 1960s, has constructed grammars of five languages, and has written numerous scholarly books and articles on Aboriginal languages. His latest book is directed at the general reader, and it springs from his frustration at what he sees as the persistent and continuing misunderstandings in the wider Australian community about the nature and history of Australia’s Indigenous languages.' (Introduction)

April in Nonfiction Sarah Burnside , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , April 2020;

— Review of Australia's Original Languages : An Introduction R. M. W. Dixon , 2019 reference ; A Novel Idea Fiona McGregor , 2019 single work autobiography
Last amended 3 Jun 2019 08:46:03
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  • Aboriginal Languages language
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