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Chirila: Contemporary and Historical Resources for the Indigenous Languages of Australia
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Bowern, Claire – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2016
Here I present the background to, and a description of, a newly developed database of historical and contemporary lexical data for Australian languages (Chirila), concentrating on the Pama-Nyungan family (the largest family in the country). While the database was initially developed in order to facilitate research on cognate words and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Research, Databases