Please note this is a live dataset and is updated regularly.
| Name | Austlang dataset |
|---|---|
| Description |
Austlang provides information about Indigenous Australian languages which has been assembled from referenced sources. |
| Author | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) |
| Author URI | www.aiatsis.gov.au |
| Author contact | data@aiatsis.gov.au |
| Licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| Visibility | Public |
| Geospatial coverage | Australia |
| Temporal | 2008 - |
| Language | English |
| Jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Australia |
| AGIFT function / theme | Indigenous Australian languages |
| Field of research | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages |
| Keywords |
Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Island peoples. language, languages, Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| Format | CSV, comma separated, with quotes |
| Encoding | UTF-8 BOM |
| Dataset status | Active, delivered via end-point |
| Dataset update frequency | Regularly |
| Dataset URI |
The data structure
| field name | description | length | format | repeated | delimiter | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| language_code | language code | up to 255 bytes | text | no | ||
| language_name | language name | up to 255 bytes | text | no | ||
| language_synonym | language synonyms | up to 65535 bytes | text | yes | , (comma) | |
| thesaurus_heading_language | thesaurus heading language | up to 255 bytes | text | no | ||
| thesaurus_heading_people | thesaurus heading people | up to 255 bytes | text | no | ||
| approximate_latitude_of_language_variety | approximate latitude of language variety | up to 255 bytes | numeric, long | no | ||
| approximate_longitude_of_language_variety | approximate longitude of language variety | up to 255 bytes | numeric, long | no | ||
| state_territory | state or territory this language group intersects | up to 255 bytes | text | yes | , (comma) | |
| uri | language URI on AUSTLANG | up to 255 bytes | text | no |