The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
- Written by Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
The spread of Pama-Nyungan was likely influenced by climate. Shutterstock.com
The approximately 400 languages of Aboriginal Australia can be grouped into 27 different families. To put that diversity in context, Europe has just four language families, Indo-European, Basque, Finno-Ugric and Semitic, with Indo-European encompassing such languages as...
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