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Australian Aboriginal languages

indigenous languages of Australia
Language language_family Q205143
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Summary

Australian Aboriginal languages is a language family[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of language family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,183 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Australia[3]
  • Instance of: indigenous languages of a geographic region[4]
  • Subclass of: indigenous language[5], languages of Australia[6]
  • Part of: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history[7]
  • Commons category: Australian Aboriginal languages[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Australian Aboriginal languages[9]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 55,695[10]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[14]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C210928[15]
  • Has part(s) of the class: dialect[16], language[17]
  • Grammatical number: plural[18]
  • P14691: aus[19]
  • P14692: Canton of Geneva[20]

Why It Matters

Australian Aboriginal languages has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Australia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . censusdata.abs.gov.au. Retrieved . censusdata.abs.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved . aiatsis.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved . aiatsis.gov.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · 99of9 · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) of the class → dialect, language
    Grammatical number → plural
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Grammatical number: plural"
  2. 5d ago · 99of9 · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) of the class → dialect, language
    Nci thesaurus id → C210928
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'de', 'en',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s) of the class: dialect"
  3. 6w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → C0574214
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: C0574214"
  4. 11w ago · JhowieNitnek · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Canton of Geneva
    Openstreetmap key → name:aus
    P14691 → aus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap key: name:aus"
  5. 13w ago · Putnik · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → australu-kalbos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: australu-kalbos"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → language family, indigenous languages of a geographic region
    Part of → Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history
    Country → Australia
    Part of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007295850705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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