The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages - The approximately 400 languages of Aboriginal Australia can be grouped into 27 different families. To put that diversity in context, Europe has just four language families, Indo-European, Basque, Finno-Ugric and Semitic, with Indo-European encompassing such languages as English, Spanish, Russian ...