The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia: Nick Evans and Patrick McConvell

The Pama-Nyungan family of languages covered the seven-eighths of the Australian continent throughout the east, centre and south; a number of nonPama-Nyungan languages belonging to language families more distantly related to Pama-Nyungan occupy the extreme north-central zone of the continent. A somewhat oversimplified diagram of the linguogenetic relationships relevant to this paper is in Figure 7.1.