Created 1 April 2007 (previously within Australian languages from February 2006)
Last changed 11 November 2022

Number of publications on Australian languages

Lois Carrington and Geraldine Triffitt. 1999. OZBIB: A linguistic bibliography of Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. Pacific Linguistics D-92
OZBIB Supplemement 1999-2006. Compiled by Geraldine Triffitt. Canberra: Mulini Press, 2006.
and 2005-2019 numbers from OZBIB online https://ozbib.aiatsis.gov.au/

Two graphs of decadal counts of publication year of items in OZBIB:
two graphs together: Ozbib
        publications , and Australia's population, by decade
Decadal counts of publication year of items in OZBIB (left scale, logarithmic); with Australian population (right scale, logarithmic)

Update: 2000-05 count is revised as 1001; and further decadal counts are 2000-09 1812, and 2010-19 951 (low because Ozbib wasn't maintained from about 2017)


Source for Australia's population: cat. no. 3105.0.65.001 Australian Historical Population Statistics  © Australian Bureau of Statistics
Note: Includes estimates of the Indigenous population only from 1961 onwards

Counts on linear scale:
graph of Ozbib publications by
        decade
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Amended 25 October 2007, 10-11 November 2022