...Australia, a highly significant language in many respects. For one thing, it is still being acquired by children as a first language--rare, among Indigenous Australian languages. It is also widely spoken as a first or second language by many others, perhaps a couple of thousand speakers--large, by Indigenous Australian standards. It is a language which fits the classic 'polysynthetic' type, having complex words which may include elements from a wide range of grammatical classes (nouns, verbs, adverbs of various types, plus agreement and other inflectional affixes), rather 'loose' word order, and complex sub-domains of nouns. Such languages still vex attempts to fit human languages into a single mould, and hence their detailed study is an imperative for linguists. Lastly, it represents...

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