Abstract The phonologies of Australia can now be investigated with new tools for large-scale phonological typology. Here we draw on an empirical dataset covering three hundred thousand lexical entries from over two hundred and fifty language varieties, which enables us to understand continent-level phonological variation in significantly more detail than previously. Variation is observed in terms of major genealogical groupings of languages, comparing the variation among them and within them. Three topics are selected based on their importance to our understanding of continental phonological diversity in Australia, and their potential to shed new light within the space available. They are: the principle characteristics and parameters of variation in consonant phonotactics; vowel phonotactics, specifically statistical harmony between vowels in adjacent syllables; and issues of analysis at the intersection of segment inventories and phonotactics, namely contour segments such as prestopped nasals. 

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Re-awakening languages: theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous languages

Abstract The Oxford Guide to Australian languages is a wide-ranging reference work that provides information about the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. There are chapters covering phonology, morphology, and syntax; language change, typology, and language classification, and language in the social sphere, including sociolinguistics and language variation, child-directed speech, and multilingualism. It describes the contemporary linguistic landscape, including language endangerment and reclamation. It is an up-to-date compendium of knowledge on traditional and contemporary languages, with a particular focus on material which is not covered in the handbooks from the past. 

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

Pallanganmiddang is a language of northeastern Victoria and now it seems that many of the people are not using it. The records of this language are very scarce and there are only four sources, which speak about the vocabulary of this language.

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Pallanganmiddang: A Language of the Upper Murray

This paper describes the methodology used in the reconstruction of the Wergaia language and its renaissance in the classroom from the perspective of the linguist involved, with additional comments from the group of Wotjobaluk students who learned their heritage language. I was asked to assist in the revitalisation of the language by the Wotjobaluk people of the Wimmera region. Some members of this group expressed their desire to learn the language via the Victorian Certificate of Education study design, Indigenous languages of Victoria, revival and reclamation: Victorian Certificate of Education study design (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority 2004) with me as their teacher. This enabled them to actively collaborate in the reconstruction of Wergaia, documented in the consultation copy of the Wergaia Community Grammar and Dictionary (Reid 2007). They are now able to write simple Wergaia sentences, translate Dreaming stories into their heritage language, and teach Wergaia to other community members. The transmission of Victorian Aboriginal languages ceased abruptly after the establishment of government and church missions where Aboriginal people were forbidden to speak their language, or practise their culture, under threat of having their children removed. Victorian Aboriginal languages are no longer spoken as the primary means of communication though people are familiar with some words or phrases from their heritage language, often without realising it. What meant the most to me was the start, when a fellow worker [Peter ShawTruex] came to me and asked about language in the Wimmera, and how we went about following the (cultural) protocols to LAECG [Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group] and Land Council. That’s what people forget. (Marjorie Pickford)2 1 School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University. 2 The student comments in this paper are the result of a survey instrument designed for this Language in education 241 In 2005 members of the Wotjobaluk community invited Dr Heather Bowe and me, two linguists from Monash University, to participate in a workshop to discuss the possible reclamation and revival of their language, Wergaia. Representatives from the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL), the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), the Victorian School of Languages (VSL), and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) also attended the workshop. At the end of the two days the community decided that they would like to reclaim their language and asked me if I would assist them. This was to be the beginning of one of the most rewarding experiences of a lifetime for all involved.

21 The rebirth of Wergaia: a collaborative effort

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