THE existence of mixed languages is one of the vexed questions of Comparative Philology. By a mixed language is meant a language in which the grammars of two or more different languages have been ...

Felicity Meakins receives funding from an Australian Research Council funded DECRA (DE140100854) for this research. By now we know that traditional Indigenous languages are losing speakers rapidly and ...

A new language, one that combines elements of English with traditional indigenous speech, has been discovered in northern Australia, according to a new study. The language, now known as Light Warlpiri ...

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