Aboriginal Languages Australia

The following was included in a notice about a future public visit to Muogamarra, dated 15 April 2013: Muogamarra Nature Reserve is a...

When reviewing Wiradhuri records made by Archdeacon James Gunther around 1837, your database compiler chanced upon: This called to mind a...

One of a number of puzzles in Archdeacon Günther’s work on Wiradhuri, as printed in Fraser 1892*, relates to the reflexive. Günther had...

Suffixes attached to verbs In Australian indigenous languages, or some at least, there seem to be five kinds of suffixes that may be...

SYDNEY WORDS William Dawes of the First Fleet wrote, on page 35 of his notebook ‘b’: P. Mr Faddy yéla Mr Clark yenyában Norfolk Island Mr...

SYDNEY WORDS One of the earliest recorded names for Sydney, or Sydney Cove, was provided by Philip Gidley King: This was derived from...

The word “waan”, spelt with a long double-a, appears fairly frequently in the work of Lynette Oates: Oates, Lynette Frances. 1988. The...

Lynette Oates has produced a comprehensive introduction to Muruwari, a language group straddling the NSW-Qld border south of Cunnamulla...

Sometime in 1791, William Dawes recorded the verb ‘to tear’, as in ‘tearing a piece of paper’: This was to prove one of many instances of...

There are some transcontinental words, and bila is one of them. It means ‘stream’. WIRADHURI The following are from the Wiradhuri...

English commonly has specific words to express shades of meaning. It has, for example, endless words for colour names: not only ‘red’ but...

Not surprisingly, no-one has found the Naabawinya site so far, but perhaps this will change. I have put into modest circulation some...