Abstract
IN this reprint from Anthropos Father Schmidt discusses the structure and classification of the Australian languages. Of these he distinguishes two main divisions, the South Australian and the North Australian. The former comprises the languages of the southern halves of Western and South Australia, of Victoria and New South Wales, and the greater (southern) part Queensland. The North Australian occupies North-west and Central Australia, the Northern Territory, and Cape York Peninsula. The southern languages are subdivided into twelve groups, the northern into three.
Die Gliederung der Australischen Sprachen: Geographische, bibliographische, linguistische Grundzüge der Erforschung der australischen Sprachen.
By P. W. Schmidt. Pp. xvi + 299. (St. Gabriel-Mödling bei Wien: Anthropos, 1919.)
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RAY, S. Die Gliederung der Australischen Sprachen: Geographische, bibliographische, linguistische Grundzüge der Erforschung der australischen Sprachen . Nature 105, 707 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105707a0
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