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- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- 12 The Linguistic Situation in Near Oceania before Agriculture
- 13 Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea
- 14 Small Language Survival and Large Language Expansion on a Hunter-Gatherer Continent
- 15 Language and Population Shift in Pre-Colonial Australia
- 16 The Spread of Pama-Nyungan in Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
14 - Small Language Survival and Large Language Expansion on a Hunter-Gatherer Continent
from Part IV - New Guinea and Australia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- 12 The Linguistic Situation in Near Oceania before Agriculture
- 13 Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea
- 14 Small Language Survival and Large Language Expansion on a Hunter-Gatherer Continent
- 15 Language and Population Shift in Pre-Colonial Australia
- 16 The Spread of Pama-Nyungan in Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
The population sizes of Australian Aboriginal language-affiliated groups that can be reconstructed for the period of initial British colonization vary enormously. To establish this range with more precision than has been done in the past, here I analyse those cases in which the number of constituent estate-holding groups per language-territorial group has been recorded (see Appendix).
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- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 356 - 391Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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