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Aboriginal Australia (AIATSIS)



Aboriginal Australia

Map Creator(s):   Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Source:   Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Contact:   Director, Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, asp@aiatsis.gov.au, Aboriginal Studies Press, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   To be approved.
Date Created:   2005

Map Description:
The Aboriginal Australia wall map represents work carried out for the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Using the published resources available between 1988 and 1994, the map attempts to represent language, tribal or nation groups of Australia's Indigenous peoples.

Disclaimer: This map indicates only the general location of larger groupings of people, which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. The boundaries are not intended to be exact. This map is not suitable for use in native title or other land claims.




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Australia: Aboriginal Language and Dialect Areas (Oates and Oates)


Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Languages and Dialect Areas

Map Creators:   Oates and Oates
Source:   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.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   Copyright Protected.
Date Created:   1970

Map Description:
This map displays the aboriginal languages and dialects 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.



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Australia: Aboriginal Language Families (Oates and Oates)


Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Families

Source:   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.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   Copyright Protected.
Date Created:   1970

Map Description:
This map shows the aboriginal language families 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 Groups (Oates and Oates)
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Subgroups (Oates and Oates)
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Languages and Dialect Areas (Oates and Oates)
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Languages and Dialect Boundaries (Oates and Oates)



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Australia: Aboriginal Language Groups (Oates and Oates)



Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Groups

Map Creators:   Oates and Oates
Source:   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.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   Copyright Protected.
Date Created:   1970

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.



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Australia: Aboriginal Language Subgroups (Oates and Oates)


Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Subgroups

Source:   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.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   Copyright Protected.
Date Created:   1970

Map Description:
This map shows the aboriginal language subgroups 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
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Language Groups
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Languages and Dialect Areas
Aboriginal Languages of Australia: Languages and Dialect Boundaries



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Australia: Aboriginal Languages with Grammar/Phonology Content (Oates and Oates)

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Aboriginal Languages of Australia: treatises on Grammar/Phonology

Map Creators: Oates and Oates
Source: 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.
Data Source: 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.
Modified with information from the Multitree database.

Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Copyright Protected.
Date Created: 1970

Map Description:
This map shows the amount of grammar/phonology information that was available on aboriginal languages in Australia. This map is 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, as well as information from the Multitree database on language relationships.

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.



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Australia: Aboriginal Languages with treatises on Grammar/Phonology (Oates and Oates)

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Aboriginal Languages of Australia: treatises on Grammar/Phonology

Map Creators: Oates and Oates
Source: 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.
Data Source: 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.
Modified with information from the Multitree database.

Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Copyright Protected.
Date Created: 1970

Map Description:
This map shows the amount of grammar/phonology information that was available on aboriginal languages in Australia. This map is 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, as well as information from the Multitree database on language relationships.

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.



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Australia: Eyre Subgroup


Languages in the Eyre region, Australia

Data Sources:  
The LINGUIST List. 2008. Australian: Composite 2008. The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
AIATSIS. 2000. Aboriginal Australia map. Australian Surveying and Land Information Group.
Horton, David. 1994. The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.)

Date Downloaded:   2009 (Vectorization: 2009)

Map Description:
This map shows languages in the Eyre region in Australia. This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database, Horton (1994) and AIATSIS (2000).

Other resources related to this project:
All maps in this folder share data sources, and each maps shows a region in Australia. The regions were defined by using watershed basins (a basin is a drainage area geographically clearly separated from other basins) as a template, and then superimposing all the groups on that base and determining where such factors as culture, language and trade indicated the there were relationships between groups. (AIATSIS 2000)