Aboriginal Languages Australia

Your Amateur Researcher received an email enquiring about the meaning of Eurimbla: I am hoping to establish the English meaning of Eurimbla , as in Eurimbla Avenue, Randwick. So far, I am wondering if it may have an Indigenous origin as a compound word from eurimanan (a large toothed monster, ie horse) and the ending derived from bulah , more than one, or many. The reason being that a Trove newspaper reference of 1857 announces the birth of a child to Mrs G W Lord at Eurimbla

The following is a typical summary table from the Bayala databases presenting a few of the words for ‘kangaroo’ across the country. The...

Who was Mathews? One of the principal figures in the recording of Aboriginal languages, particularly in the Sydney region, was Robert...