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This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang , have become widely used in other varieties of English , and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.
Note: As "Australian Aboriginal" is not a distinct language, but rather a collective term for a large group of languages, this category is useful as a holding place for all words with an origin in the different Aboriginal languages.
Ngunnawal/Ngunawal and Gundungurra are Australian Aboriginal languages, and the traditional languages of the Ngunnawal and Gandangarra.Ngunnawal and Gundungurra are very closely related and the two were most likely highly mutually intelligible.
Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology. Reverence and respect for the land and oral traditions are emphasised. The words "law" and "lore", the latter relating to the customs and stories passed down through the generations, are commonly used ...
The welcome, extended on behalf of the Noongar people, was intended to mirror the visitors' own traditions, while incorporating elements of Aboriginal culture. [9] Walley recalled that [ 10 ] Māori performers were uncomfortable performing their cultural act without having been acknowledged or welcomed by the people of the land.
Hundreds of new words have been added, including words for items which did not exist in the 19th century, such as "solar panel". [ 14 ] In 2021 the first students of the first training course to be specially tailored to the teaching of Aboriginal language , run by Tauondi Aboriginal College in Port Adelaide , graduated, and are now able to pass ...
Where there were gaps in the sparsely populated wordlists, words were taken from lexically similar nearby languages. This led to the publication of the work Darkinyung grammar and dictionary: revitalising a language from historical sources. [5] This may be ordered from the publisher, Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative. [6]
It is now used as an Aboriginal endonym by a wide range of Western Desert Language (WDL) peoples to describe themselves. [1] It is rarely or never applied to non-Aboriginal people when used in English, although the word now has a dual meaning in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara .