EBook For The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages 1st Edition By Claire Bowern

EBook For The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages 1st Edition By Claire Bowern

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a helpful book that talks about the more than 550 languages spoken by Indigenous people in Australia, both old and new. These languages are very important for studying how languages change over time and how they work. But until now, there hasn’t been a complete and easy-to-understand guide to all the different languages of Australia. This book fills that gap by bringing together expert scholars and new researchers to give us a detailed look at all parts of these languages.

The chapters in the book cover topics like how languages are grouped, their sounds and grammar, how they are used in everyday life, and how language changes in different communities. The last part of the book gives examples of the grammar of different languages and groups. This book is important because many Australian languages are disappearing, and it helps us understand how we can work to keep and revive them.