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Review published In: Diachronica
Vol. 24:2 (2007) ► pp.405–413

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Nicholas Evans. The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2003. x, 513, 4 maps pp.

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Published online: 21 December 2007
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