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Rosey Billington recently shared a photo of this amazing biscuit map of Australian languages made by Katie Jepson at The University of Melbourne. This tasty and educational masterpiece is part of the annual LAL Postgrad Club Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a fundraiser for the Australian Cancer Council. Check out this AIATSIS map of Australia’s traditional languages to see what a great job she’s done.

Katie is a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne. Her
research currently focuses investigating prosody and intonation in
Djambarrpuyŋu, a Yolŋu languages of North East Arnhem in the Northern
Territory. On the regular maps we see this part of Australia doesn’t
look like much, but Katie’s map wonderfully demonstrates the linguistic
and cultural diversity of the big biscuity centre of Australia.

Katie mentioned that the Yolŋu area, which is represented by the yellowy orange blob in the
top right point of the Northern Territory, really could be another 20
colours, depending on how strictly you define the varieties as languages
or dialects. And all the languages on the AIATSIS map have the same
kind of diversity.

From all
reports the languages not only looked great, but tasted good too (the
only language endangerment we are ok with is the danger they’ll be all
eaten from this map).

You can see our pictures of the event from 2012 and 2013. You can donate to the LAL’s fund-raiser here.

A truly worthy addition to the linguistics baked goods files!