Explanation of enclosed map of same title; lists all communities in Centre, languages by location, alternative place names, pronunciation guide for lay person.

Need for census, failures of previous attemps, quetion of polylingualism and socially/linguistically meaningful area of land, aims and methodology, need for Aboriginal acceptance of project.

"As more and more Aboriginal communities in southern Australia seek to revive languages that have fallen from use and memory, they are invariably confronted by the dearth of source at their disposal.

Biographical and fiction.