Keeping Track of Indigenous Language Endangerment in Australia

Language Diversity in the Pacific: Endangerment and Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 54-84

  McConvell, Patrick ^a   Thieberger, Nicholas ^b,c  

^a Central Australian communities   (Australia)

^b Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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