Aboriginal Languages Australia

dog / wild / bad / turtle / arouse/ alarm /startle / disturb / drive / chase SPELLING From the above record extracts it would seem that...

bidya: ‘sleep’ and bidyag: ‘stinking’ — is there a connection? and if so, what? The suffix -ak [-ag] is the possessive. Thus bidya-[a]g...

There are several words to express ‘bad’, but it is interesting to note one similarity between the Nyungar language of south-west Western...

In 2010 I have been working on the Nyungar language area of south-west Western Australia. I used to live in Darlington not far from...