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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.
[a] The Noongar people refer to their land as Noongar boodja. [b] [3] The members of the collective Noongar cultural bloc descend from people who spoke several languages and dialects that were often mutually intelligible. [citation needed] What is now classified as the Noongar language is a member of the large Pama–Nyungan language family.
Many words from Indigenous Australian languages have found their way into Western Australian English. Examples include gidgee (or gidgie ), a Noongar word for spear, as used in modern spear fishing; [ 3 ] and gilgie (or jilgie ), the Noongar name for a small freshwater crayfish of the South West .
Noongar words which have been adopted into Western Australian English, or more widely in English, include the given name Kylie, "boomerang", [63] gilgie or jilgie, the freshwater crayfish Cherax quinquecarinatus, and gidgie or gidgee, "spear". The word for smoke, karrik, was adopted for the family of compounds known as karrikins. [63]
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.
Noongar - occupying the area of the South West Agricultural Division of Western Australia - affected from 1827 onwards, and today represented by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council. It includes five cultural groups: Perth type: Matrilineal moieties and totemic clans. Patrilineal local descent groups.
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
However, in all Noongar groups it is a central figure and responsible for giving life or sustenance for life to the people who are the custodians of its land. [ 2 ] The Wagyl is responsible for shaping and creating the Swan River , creating the sharp bends at Belmont and Maylands , as well as the Canning River . [ 3 ]