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Australian Aboriginal languages

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Australian Aboriginal languages

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Also known as Australian languages, Indigenous Australian languages

indigenous languages of Australia

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The primary typological division in Australian languages: Pama–Nyungan languages (tan) and non-Pama–Nyungan languages (mustard and grey) People who speak Australian Aboriginal languages as a percentage of the population in Australia, divided geographically by statistical local area at the 2011 census

Australian Aboriginal languages are those languages spoken by Australian Aboriginal people. There are more than 250 distinct languages.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Australian Aboriginal languages” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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