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Most Australian Aboriginal languages have three- or five-vowel systems, and these form the substrate for Aboriginal English vowel pronunciations, especially in more basilectal accents. More basilectal varieties tend to merge a number of vowels, up to the point of merging all Australian English vowels into the three or five vowels of a given ...
At the start of the 21st century, fewer than 150 Aboriginal languages remained in daily use, [9] with the majority being highly endangered. In 2020, 90 per cent of the barely more than 100 languages still spoken are considered endangered. [10] Thirteen languages are still being transmitted to children. [11]
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang, have become widely used in other varieties of English, and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.
Warluwara language: 3 [6] Warnman language, Wanman language [1] 20 (1973 SIL) Severely endangered Warrgamay language: 3 [6] Warrungu language: Warrangu, Warrango Qld Warrwa language: Warwa, Warwar 2 (2001 McGregor) WA Warumungu language [1] 50 to 310 Severely endangered Warungu language: 2 [6] Western Desert language: See article for the ...
Sharpe completed her doctoral dissertation on the language of the Alawa people at the University of Queensland in 1965. [1] After a further stint of fieldwork between June 1966 and May 1968, this was updated and issued as a monograph under the imprint of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in 1972. [2]
The Kokatha language, also written Kukatha, Kokata, Gugada, and other variants, and also referred to as Madutara, Maduwonga, Nganitjidi, Wanggamadu, and Yallingarra and variant spellings of these, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Western Desert group traditionally spoken by the Kokatha people, whose traditional lands are in the western part of the state of South Australia, north of ...
Palawa kani is a constructed language [1] created by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre as a composite Tasmanian language, based on reconstructed vocabulary from the limited accounts of the various languages once spoken by the Aboriginal people of what is now Tasmania (palawa kani: Lutruwita).