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Dr. Donald 'Don' Laycock was an Australian linguist and anthropologist. He was a graduate of University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and later worked as a researcher at the University of Adelaide in Anthropology. The University of Newcastle is an Australian public university that was established in 1965 and is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle New South The University of Adelaide (colloquially Adelaide University or Adelaide Uni) is a Public university located in Adelaide, South Australia Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of He undertook his PhD at the Australian National University in linguistics and became a world authority on the languages of Papua New Guinea. The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia. Papua New Guinea (or ˈpæpjuːə in Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini) officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania

He performed several pioneering surveys of the languages of the Sepik region of New Guinea. The Sepik is the longest river on the island of New Guinea. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea (PNG provinces of Sandaun New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the world's second largest island, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known The first of these, his Ph. D. research under the supervision of Stephen Wurm, was published as The Ndu languages (1965), and established the existence of this closely related group of languages. Stephen Adolphe Wurm ( August 19, 1922 – October 24, 2001) was a Hungarian -born Australian linguist. In subsequent surveys, he found the Ndu languages were part of a larger language family extending through the middle and upper Sepik valley (the "Sepik subphylum"), and in 1973 he proposed that these languages formed part of a Sepik-Ramu phylum. The Sepik-Ramu languages are a hypothetical Language family linking the Sepik, Ramu, Nor-Pondo (Lower Sepik, Leonhard Schultze (Walio-Papi This remained the general consensus in the linguistic world for over 30 years. While more recent work by William Foley and Malcolm Ross has cast doubt on a link between the Ramu-Lower Sepik languages and the Sepik languages, the "Sepik subphylum" seems established as a genuine group. William Foley is a linguist and professor at the University of Sydney. Malcolm David Ross (born 1942 is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. The Ramu-Lower Sepik languages form a family of 35 Papuan languages spoken in the Ramu and Sepik river basins of northern Papua New Guinea The Sepik languages are a proposed family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea.

Laycock also first identified the Torricelli (1968) and Piawi groups of languages. The Torricelli languages are a relatively young Language family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast spoken by only about 80000 people The Piawi languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm He published numerous papers in linguistics and anthropology.

He was described by his fellow authors of Skeptical (David Vernon, Dr Colin Groves and Simon Brown) as a 20th Century 'Renaissance Man' as his interests were wide ranging from Melanesian languages, to channelling, Tarot cards and bawdy songs. David Vernon (born 1965 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian writer Colin Groves is Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Simon Brown may refer to Simon Brown (author, Australian science fiction writer Simon Brown (cricketer, English cricketer Mediumship is a practice in religious beliefs such as Spiritualism, Spiritism, Espiritismo, Candomblé, Louisiana Voodoo, and The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names is typically a set of seventy-eight cards comprised of twenty-one trump cards, one Ribaldry is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to vulgar

He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Vice President of the Australian Linguistic Society and a member of Mensa. Mensa is the largest oldest and most famous high-IQ society in the world A keen member of the Australian Skeptics he entertained many people at Skeptic's conventions with his demonstrations of glossolalia and going into trances. The Australian Skeptics is a non-profit organisation based in Australia which investigates Paranormal and Pseudoscientific claims using scientific Glossolalia is commonly called "speaking in tongues" For other uses of "speaking in tongues" see Speaking in Tongues (disambiguation. After his death, his meticulous work on the Enochian 'language' (which was allegedly channelled to an associate of the Elizabethan mystic John Dee) was turned by a colleague into one of the very few classics of skeptical linguistics. This article is about the Angelical Language recorded in the journals of Dr John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609 was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist

He died after a short illness in Canberra on 27 December 1988. Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. Events 537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed 1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar)

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