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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Arial;color: #333333;font-size: 10pt;"><span class="_rw_b" tabindex="-1"><span class="_rw_8 PersonaPaneLauncher" tabindex="-1"><span class="_pe_l _pe_E _pe_T1 bidi _pe_k1 ms-font-s _pe_Q allowTextSelection">Good afternoon,
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<p><span class="_rw_b" tabindex="-1"><span class="_rw_8 PersonaPaneLauncher" tabindex="-1"><span class="_pe_l _pe_E _pe_T1 bidi _pe_k1 ms-font-s _pe_Q allowTextSelection">As I am preparing a lecture on semantics/lexical semantics for the Australia's Indigenous
Languages that I am teaching at the University of Sydney this year, I came to wonder if anyone had ever counted how many Australian languages have a "published dictionary"?
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<p><span class="_rw_b" tabindex="-1"><span class="_rw_8 PersonaPaneLauncher" tabindex="-1"><span class="_pe_l _pe_E _pe_T1 bidi _pe_k1 ms-font-s _pe_Q allowTextSelection">By "published" I mean a resource that is available to be purchased or consulted from libraries,
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<p><span class="_rw_b" tabindex="-1"><span class="_rw_8 PersonaPaneLauncher" tabindex="-1"><span class="_pe_l _pe_E _pe_T1 bidi _pe_k1 ms-font-s _pe_Q allowTextSelection">By "dictionary" I mean an extensive collection of "words + definition" - not just "words
+ translations" -, and probably anything over 200 entries? (as a rule of thumb).
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<p><span class="_rw_b" tabindex="-1"><span class="_rw_8 PersonaPaneLauncher" tabindex="-1"><span class="_pe_l _pe_E _pe_T1 bidi _pe_k1 ms-font-s _pe_Q allowTextSelection">By "language" I imply "not dialects".
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<p><span class="_rw_b" tabindex="-1"><span class="_rw_8 PersonaPaneLauncher" tabindex="-1"><span class="_pe_l _pe_E _pe_T1 bidi _pe_k1 ms-font-s _pe_Q allowTextSelection">Is there a list somewhere of "Australian languages that have a dictionary"?
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