Aboriginal Languages Australia

The Narinyiri language area is in the south-east corner of South Australia, shown orange on the accompanying map. It gained notoriety in 1994 when, at its western end, a proposed bridge from the mainland to Hindmarsh Island in the mouth of the River Murray was objected to by the local Aboriginal people because one of the abutments would have been built on special land connected with ‘secret women’s business’. After government investigation the bridge was built anyway.   Two E

At the end of March 2025 Your Amateur Researcher travelled with Aurora Coach Tours on a trip lasting about ten days to South Australia's...

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...

Dieri is an Aboriginal language once spoken to the east of Lake Eyre in Cooper Creek country  in the Sturt Stony Desert in north-west...