Many researchers argue that Pama-Nyungan represents a single language family covering most Australian Aboriginal languages, though it excludes those spoken in the northwest.

The field linguist published a comparative study of non-Pama-Nyungan phonologies to highlight typological contrasts across northern Australia.

Some linguists believe that Proto-Pama-Nyungan spread across most of Australia several thousand years ago.

The Pama-Nyunganist presented her fieldwork findings at the conference on Australian Aboriginal languages.

Pama-Nyunganists gathered at the conference to present new research on language family boundaries.