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

• 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

• 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
  

Note: The .txt files linked above are plain text.  The ones 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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