Aboriginal Languages Australia

This free educational resource provides an excellent introduction to the Sydney Aboriginal language as translated by William Dawes. Including word lists, interesting facts on the language, along with insights into the history of the early white settlers and how these translations came about. This  presentation of the Sydney Aboriginal language is indebted to the work of William Dawes, contemporary compilers of word lists, as well as to later professional scholars including Jakelin Troy, The Sydney Language (1992) and R.M.W. Dixon, The Languages of Australia (1980).