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It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous 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 ...
Mrs. Koala is Blinky's mother in several books, TV shows, a movie. Bunyip Bluegum is a koala in The Magic Pudding. Buster Moon in Sing and its sequel. Nigel an eccentric British koala in the 2006 Disney animated film The Wild. The Australian version of the American Disney computer-animated film Zootopia has a koala as a newscaster character.
^ This name is the main name used in Norman Tindale's Catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Tribes. [7] Each has a separate article under the name listed there, and alternative names are also listed. In most cases (but not all) the name in the left column "Group name" is also the main name used by Tindale.
coolamon (wooden curved bowl used to carry food or baby) corroboree; dilli (a bag) [4] commonly, and tautologically, as "dilly-bag" djanga; gibber (a stone) [4] esp. in gibber plain=stony desert; gin (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman) gunyah; humpy (a hut) kurdaitcha; lubra (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal ...
Another hypothesis is that koala was an aboriginal name from the Hawkesbury River district near Sydney. [6] Adopted by white settlers, the word "koala" became one of hundreds of Aboriginal loan words in Australian English, where it was also commonly referred to as "native bear", [7] later "koala bear", for its resemblance to a bear. [8]
The word "koala" is derived from gula in the Dharuk and Gundungurra languages A Yuin man, c.1904The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yuin–Kuric group that was traditionally spoken in the region of Sydney, New South Wales, until it became ...
Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane, derived from the Turrbal language. Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [citation needed] Historically, European explorers and surveyors may have asked local Aboriginal people the name of a place, and named it accordingly.
Gamilaraay language is classified as one of the Pama–Nyungan languages.The language is no longer spoken, as the last fluent speakers died in the 1950s. However, some parts have been reconstructed by late field work, which includes substantial recordings of the related language, Yuwaalaraay, which continued to be spoken down to the 1980s.