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Specific terms can be used to refer to local or regional varieties of AbE, for example Koori or Murri English, Broome lingo and Noongar English. [2] Nunga English is the southern South Australian dialect of Aboriginal English. It includes words from the Narungga, Ngarrindjeri, and West Coast languages, as well as local variations in pronunciation.
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.
Noongar grammar is fairly typical of Pama–Nyungan languages in that it is agglutinating, with words and phrases formed by the addition of affixes to verb and noun stems. [37] Word order in Noongar is free, but generally tends to follow a subject–object–verb pattern. [38]
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Noongar groups. The Noongar (/ ˈ n ʊ ŋ ɑːr /, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar / ˈ n j ʊ ŋ ɑːr /, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga [1] / ˈ j ʊ ŋ ɑː /) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.
Noongarpedia is a collaborative project to add Noongar language content to Wikimedia projects and to improve all languages' content relating to Noongar topics. It is being driven by an Australian Research Council project from the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, in collaboration with Wikimedia Australia.
The Council's primary role is to assist the Noongar people with native title claims and Indigenous land use agreements. [4] It also helps support Noongar culture and heritage, [4] and publishes the Kaartdijin Noongar ("Noongar Knowledge") website. [5]
Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959 [3]) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia. [4] Collard is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia. He has a background in literature ...