This website was created as a student project for a class on Australian Aboriginal Languages taught by Professor Peter K. Austin in 1998 and is presented here in its original form. Professor Austin is now at the School of Oriental and African Studies and can be contacted by email at pa2 AT soas.ac.uk.

The Site Creators


Allison Pritchard	Connal Parsley	Fiona MacDowall


Bruce Birch	Tom Jones

Allison Pritchard	Allison is currently undertaking Combined Honours in Linguistics and Spanish for completion of a Bachelor of Arts.
Connal Parsley	Connal completed 4th year Honours in Linguistics in 1998 towards a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws.
Fiona MacDowall	Fiona completed 4th year Honours in Linguistics in 1998, as part of a Bachelor of Arts.
Bruce Birch	Bruce is a PhD candidate in the Department.
Tom Jones	Tom completed a Super Major in Linguistics in 1988 for a Bachelor of Arts.

Professor Peter Austin is the head of the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He has been working on the Jiwarli language since 1978 and collected all the data on the language that you can read and listen to in this site. You can click on his name for further information about his other areas of study and selected publications.