Talk:Transcription of Australian Aboriginal languages

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Did you know... that the Indigenous Australian languages had no written form until colonisation, when they were transcribed into the Latin alphabet?

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Requested move

There's a new poll here that would (hopefully) end all this "Indigenous" vs. "Aborigine" controversy. Feel free to vote. Zarbat 09:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC) gogo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.45.211.101 (talk) 08:40, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New section?

Under the heading 'Early writing' I would like to summarise the known research that interprets the idiosyncratic transcription systems used by individual scribes, eg. Daisy Bates, Spencer & Gillen, etc. If this gets too long-winded it could moved to a separate main article entitled something like 'Early transcription conventions of Australian Aboriginal writers'. Such an article would make a genuinely useful reference for people working with the archives. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AustKin (talk • contribs) 00:13, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]