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unusual facts about Australian Aboriginal languages


Karl Lentzner

This is the first dictionary of colonial Australian, with slang, words introduced from Aboriginal languages and pidgin.


Andegerebinha dialect

The Andegerebinha language, also known as Andigibinha and Antekerrepinhe, is an aboriginal language of the Northwest Territory of Australia spoken around the Hay River, Pituri Creek area according to Ethnologue.

Darkinjung language

Darkinjung (many other spellings; see below) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Darkinjung people.

Darwin Region languages

The Darwin Region languages constitute a small family of poorly attested Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by Mark Harvey.

Grampians National Park

The ranges were named in 1836 by Surveyor General of New South Wales Sir Thomas Mitchell after the Grampian Mountains in his native Scotland, but are also known by the name Gariwerd, from one of the local Australian Aboriginal languages, either the Jardwadjali or Djab Wurrung language.

Lower Burdekin languages

The Lower Burdekin languages were probably three distinct Australian Aboriginal languages spoken around the mouth of the Burdekin River in north Queensland.

Nils Holmer

Unusually, he carried out fieldwork across a wide range of languages across several continents, including Irish, Basque, Siouan languages, Algonquian languages, Iroquoian languages, the Central American language Kuna and the South American language of Choco and Wayuu and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Panyjima language

Panyjima is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Hamersley Range, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Queanbeyan River

It is believed that the local Aboriginal Ngarigo people used a word that sounded like queanbeyan to describe the river, said to mean "clearwater".

Thura-Yura languages

The Yura or Thura-Yura languages are a group of Australian Aboriginal languages surrounding Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent in South Australia, that comprise a genetic language family of the Pama–Nyungan family.

Wongungarra River

In the Australian Aboriginal Brabralung/Daungwurrung dialect of the Gunai language, the variant name for the Wongungarra River is Gwannam-o-rook, meaning "eaglehawk".

Yugambeh language

Yugambeh or Yugambal (see below for other names) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Yugambeh Bundjalung people living on the South-East Queensland coast between the Logan River and the Tweed River (including South Stradbroke Island).


see also

Laves

Gerhardt Laves (July 15, 1906 - March 14, 1993) a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Yale University doing fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages.