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Aboriginal Language - (dead link)
A well organized and extensive collection of online resources.
P.L. Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College

Aboriginal Languages of Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
"There are more than 200 Australian Indigenous languages, most of which have been destroyed; all the others are endangered. This site has annotated links to over 130 resources for nearly 40 of these languages. About 30% of these resources are produced by Indigenous people."
Edited by David Nathan

Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive
"ASEDA's collection focus is information about Australian Indigenous languages, with nearly 300 languages represented. However, it also holds other information on Indigenous topics such as items relating to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Land Claim transcripts, fonts, graphics and software."
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

AusAnthrop: Anthropology and Aboriginal Australia
"This site is dedicated to research and resources in anthropology, for academics as well as the layman. Special accent is on Aboriginal Australia, and more specifically on the Western Desert cultural bloc. However, other resources are, and future resources will be, of interest to a wider public, whether anthropologists or not."

• Database on Tribes and Languages
  "...is an on-line database on Australian Aboriginal tribes, nations, languages, and dialectal groups. It is a reference database that should help to find a tribe or language from the many alternative names and spellings used in the literature. The database contains alternative names, some places of location, bibliogrpahic references, a links to archival files at the South Australian Museum, linguistic classifications such as those by the SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) and the AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), as well as the name given in EAA (Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia)."
• Western Desert Project
  "...is a sub directory of the AusAnthrop web site. It describes the methods, means and results of an ongoing project on land tenure and kinship of the Aborigines of the Western Desert of Australia. The aim is to analyse contemporary social structure among these 40 and more dialectal groups, as well as to investigate historical transformations."

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FATSIL - Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
"This is the only national Indigenous- run website actively publishing materials related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages. It provides information on individual languages, contacts, policy developments and research."

• National Indigenous Language Directory

Indigenous Languages and Interactive Technology - (dead link)
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

University of Newcastle, Callaghan

• Awaba
  "...an electronic database and guide to the history, culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of NSW...From this site you can access over 100 documents and materials about the Awabakal people and language. It also provides a thematic guide to these materials, with contributions prepared by various locally-based scholars, writers and community leaders."
  Sections include: Bibliography ; Culture ; History ; Images ; Language ; People ; Plances.