The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia by McGregor, William B.

The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415308083)

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The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia by McGregor, William B.

The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia

$200.00
The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia by McGregor, William B.

The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.

Author: William B. McGregor
ISBN-10: 0415308089
ISBN-13: 9780415308083
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2004
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.46w x 0.94d
By William B. McGregor
By William B. McGregor
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William B. McGregor is Professor of Linguistics at Aarhus University. He has studied Kimberley languages for more than two decades, publishing grammatical descriptions of four, and articles on a variety of topics including their grammar, history, semantics and discourse organisation.

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