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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.
Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.
Aboriginal Australia map, a guide to Aboriginal language, tribal and nation groups published by AIATSIS; AUSTLANG Australian Indigenous Languages Database at AIATSIS; Australian language family trees; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Editor: David Nathan; South Australian Museum
Most Australian Aboriginal languages have three- or five-vowel systems, and these form the substrate for Aboriginal English vowel pronunciations, especially in more basilectal accents. More basilectal varieties tend to merge a number of vowels, up to the point of merging all Australian English vowels into the three or five vowels of a given ...
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Where word lists and written records were made after colonisation, they were often compiled by amateurs with no linguistic training, [10] there are many variations of spelling and knowledge of the grammar of some languages may be limited without fluent speakers. [11] The New South Wales Aboriginal Languages Act 2017 became law on 24 October ...
A Blackfoot language text with both the syllabics and the Latin orthography. Blackfoot, another Algonquian language, uses a syllabary developed in the 1880s that is quite different from the Cree and Inuktitut versions. Although borrowing from Cree the ideas of rotated and mirrored glyphs with final variants, most of the letter forms derive from ...