| The Australian Language Family (3299 words) |
 | The misconception that there was only one native language in Australia was just one of many that would hinder the acceptance of the aboriginal people and the study of their languages. |
| Their languages were thought to consist of vocabularies ranging from 100 to 300 words and incapable of discussing abstract thoughts (Dixon 4-5). |
| Grey was the first to propose genetic relationships among the Australian languages and to even go so far as to develop a comparison of the lexicon of several native languages by using their cognates. |
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