• Hale-1962.nexus.txt from Kenneth L. Hale. 1962. Internal relationships in Arandic of central Australia, pp. 171-83 in Some linguistic types in Australia. Oceania Linguistic Monograph 7, by A. Capell. Sydney: Oceania (The University of Sydney).
  Note: The text (1962:178,180) has four percentages which differ from those in the table (1962:181).  Hale advised me (p.c. June 1981) that the four in the text are more accurate and should be used instead of the figures in the table:
  

  AAl-PRAR	69 not 70
  AAl-HyAr	55 not 56
  AAl-LoAr	54 not 55
  ASAr-HyAr	70 not 77

  
  
• from page 121 of G.N. O'Grady. 1966. Proto-Ngayarda Phonology. Oceanic Linguistics 5,71-130
• GNOG-NgayardaMatrix.txt
• GNOG-Ngayarda.nexus.txt
  

• Dixon-1970.nexus.txt R.M.W. Dixon. 1970. Languages of the Cairns rain forest region, pp 651-87 in Pacific linguistics studies in honour of Arthur Capell, edited by S.A. Wurm and D.C. Laycock. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics C-13. * data used by Annette J. Dobson & Paul Black. 1979. Multidimensional scaling of some lexicostatistical data. The Mathematical Scientist 4,55-61. PDF of scan

• Breen, Gavan. 1971. Aboriginal languages of Western Queensland. Linguistic Communications 5,1–88.
• Breen, Gavan. 1990. Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages. Pacific Linguistics B-105.
  

• ‘Daly Family’ languages (and some subvarieties) lexicostatistical percentages based on a 200-item wordlist
  
• p. xiv of D.T. Tryon. 1974. Daly Family languages, Australia. Pacific Linguistics C-32.
• also p.65 of Paul Black. 1997. Lexicostatistics and Australian languages: Problems and prospects, pp.51-69 in Boundary rider: Essays in honour of Geoffrey O’Grady, ed. by Darrell Tryon and Michael Walsh. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  

• DGN-SEWA-Table2.txt Table 2. 'Percentages of corresponding vocabulary between pairs of 26 south-east Western Australia sources', pp.212-3 in David Nash. 2002. Historical linguistic geography of south-east Western Australia, pp.205-30 in Language in Native Title, ed. by John Henderson & David Nash. Canberra: AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Aboriginal Studies Press.  http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an23297469

• Stokes-McGregor-2003.rtf Table in Bronwyn Stokes and William McGregor. 2003. Kimberley: Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages, pp.29-74 in The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia edited by Nicholas Evans. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 552.
  

• CJones-greaterSydney.nexus.txt Appendix C. 'Dissimilarity matrix for greater Sydney wordlists', page 486 in Caroline Jones & Shawn Laffan. 2008. Lexical similarity and endemism in historical wordlists of Australian Aboriginal languages of the greater Sydney region. Transactions of the Philological Society 106.3,456-486. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2008.00209.x

• McGregorRumsey-Worrorran.txt from a PDF version of a table of ratios, along with the full data set on which it is based http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/Worrorran.pdf Table 3: 'Lexicostatistical comparison of Worrorran and some nearby languages' in William B McGregor and Alan Rumsey. 2009. Worrorran revisited: The case for genetic relations among languages of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. (Studies in language change 4) Pacific Linguistics 600. Canberra.

• Bowern, Claire. 2010. Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (12 December 2010) vol. 365 no. 1559,3845-3854. * theme issue 'Cultural and linguistic diversity: evolutionary approaches' compiled and edited by James Steele, Peter Jordan and Ethan Cochrane * doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0013

• McGregor-Nyulnyul.rtf table forthcoming in William McGregor. A grammar of Nyulnyul. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Note: The .txt files linked above are plain text.  The .rtf files containing a table. The files with nexus in the name are in Nexus file format is used by SplitsTree. 'NEXUS is a de facto standard among researchers who focus on phylogenetic inference and hypothesis-testing using models of character evolution.' (source) The other text files have TAB characters separating the matrix columns, so that the matrix can be pasted into a spreadsheet.

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