On 04/09/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
There are some 231 living languages spoken in Australia. I think English is the only one that has it's Wikipedia.
If you mean the native languages, the problem is that a lot of them weren't written until recently, not many are used for any academic purpose (though some notably are) and orthographies vary widely. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_of_Australian_Aboriginal_language... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_sign_languages
So what we need for a Wikipedia is a few people who speak the languages and want to do a Wikipedia of a language.
- d.