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The first Aboriginal people to use Australian Aboriginal languages in the Australian parliament were Aden Ridgeway on 25 August 1999 in the Senate when he said "On this special occasion, I make my presence known as an Aborigine and to this chamber I say, perhaps for the first time: Nyandi baaliga Jaingatti. Nyandi mimiga Gumbayynggir.
Atampaya language: Extinct Australian Aboriginal English: Over 30,000 Vigorous Developed post-contact Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English language: Few Nearly extinct Pidgin. Developed post-contact. Has been mostly creolized. Australian Kriol language: Creole, Pidgin English, Roper-Bamyili Creole 4,200 Vigorous
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Humans arrived in Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago [20] [21] but it is possible that the ancestor language of existing Indigenous languages is as recent as 12,000 years old. [22] Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact. [ 1 ]
Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1. Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan. Milton, Vanessa; Wheaton, Claire (22 March 2020). "Fishermen revive Indigenous net fishing tradition in landmark collaboration". ABC News
South Australian Pidgin English developed around 1820 from the population of Kangaroo Island. At this time Kangaroo Island was a major whaling and sealing center populated by 50 European and Austronesian male whalers and sealers and roughly 100 Aboriginal wives who were mostly kidnapped from Tasmania, Port Lincoln, the Adelaide plains, and the mainland opposite Kangaroo Island.
The Aboriginal Language and Culture Nest project in NSW draws together communities with a common language to create opportunities to "revitalise, reclaim and maintain traditional languages". [14] There are Aboriginal Language and Culture Nests that focus on the Bundjalung, Gamilaraay, Gumbaynggirr, Wiradjuri and Paakantji/Baarkintji languages. [14]
The indigenous language spoken mainly in the western and central islands is Kalaw Lagaw Ya, a language related to the Pama–Nyungan languages of the Australian mainland. The other indigenous language spoken mainly in the eastern islands is Meriam Mir : a member of the Trans-Fly languages spoken on the nearby south coast of New Guinea and the ...