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About Nicholas Thieberger
- Nicholas Thieberger is an Australian linguist and an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.
- He helped to establish the PARADISEC archive in 2003 and currently serves as its Director.
- Thieberger is also the Editor of Language Documentation & Conservation, an academic journal which focuses on language documentation and conservation.Thieberger received his PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2004 for his work on the grammar of South Efate.
- He is best known for his research on Indigenous Australian languages, on the South Efate language of Vanuatu, and for his work in language documentation.
- He established Wangka Maya the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in the late 1980s, ASEDA, the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive, in the early 1990s, and co-founded the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity.
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