[PDF] Aboriginal Words Of Australia eBook

Author : Alexander Wyclif Reed
Publisher : New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Limited
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781876334161

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Is Kangaroo an Aboriginal word? What does brolga mean? Many of the words Australians use every day have their origins in some of the hundreds of Aboriginal languages once spoken across the land. this book is a fascinating reference for anyone interested in knowing more about the original inhabitants of this vast continent.

Author : Macquarie Dictionary
Publisher : Macquarie
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1760789747

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Macquarie Aboriginal Words is a dictionary of words from a selection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. This ebook covers the languages of Diyari & Kaurna from South Australia. For each language, the following information is provided: · a brief history of the language · points on the grammar, spelling and pronunciation · an extensive wordlist organised by categories, such as animals, body parts, kin relationships, placenames, etc. · a dual index, i.e. English to Language and Language to English This ebook series is based on Macquarie Aboriginal Words originally published in print in 1994. The sheer diversity of indigenous languages in Australia must be close to the greatest and richest component of this country's national cultural heritage ... This book is much needed, as it gives a sense of the richness of a heritage which is disappearing in many areas of the country. NOEL PEARSON

Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Australian Aboriginal Words in English records the Aboriginal contribution to Australian English and provides the fullest available information about their Aboriginal background and their Australian English history.

Author : Justine Kenyon
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN :

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Meanings and localities; includes a list of Tasmanian words; the Foreword 'The speech of the Australian Aboriginal' by A.S. Kenyon gives a meaning for the word Canberra.

Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780195533941

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Paperback edition of a book first published in 1990. Prepared by a professor of linguistics, the head of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and an anthropologist, it records the Aboriginal contribution to Australian English. Includes an introduction to the nature of Aboriginal languages, short sketches of the languages from which the words are taken and a chapter on the evolution of Aboriginal words which have come into English usage. Contains a language location map and an extensive index.

Author : Nick Thieberger
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Macquarie Aboriginal words.

Author : Joan Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This is a concise edition of the Australian National Dictionary (OUP 1989) which was hailed as a major asset for readers studying Australian literature that made all earlier dictionaries of Australian English obsolete. The volume contains nearly as many headwords as the original edition, yet provides fewer collations, and indicates the first recorded, and most recent, use of a word. It retains the parent volume's comprehensive coverage of uniquely Australian words and phrases; words for indigenous flora, fauna, and pastimes; and Aboriginal terms.