The Atlas of Australian Languages
Every language, on one map — held honestly.
A living, citable atlas of 980Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages and dialects — their Country, family and deep-time position, drawn from open scholarly data. Where something isn’t known, we say so rather than fill the gap. How this is sourced.
What is known, and how much
Coverage & sources →Counts are shown as they are, out of 980— never rounded up to imply completeness. A blank is always an explicit “unknown”, never a fabricated value.
Explore the atlas
Directory
Filter and sort every language — including the unlocated and lexically-empty. No language left off.
PreviewLiveDeep-time spread
The animated Pama-Nyungan expansion, and every scholarly thesis of why the languages moved — held side by side.
OpenComing soonGrammar & similarity
Colour the map by any Grambank or WALS feature; compare grammatical profiles between languages.
PreviewComing soonMethods & sources
How the atlas is joined, every upstream dataset and licence, and the uncertainty policy.
PreviewA note of respect. These languages belong to the First Peoples of this continent, who have spoken them on Country for tens of thousands of years and speak many of them today. This atlas gathers open scholarly records to help find, cite and care for that knowledge; it is not a substitute for community authority. Names, autonyms and locations drawn from catalogues are shown with their uncertainty, and communities are the final word on their own languages. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.