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The settlers quickly discovered that knowledge of Dharuk (the Aboriginal language spoken in Sydney) was of no help to them in communicating with the local Aborigines—unless the Aborigines had learned words from the settlers in the belief that they were English, as indeed happened with some pidgin terms and, in the west, with boomerang .
The possible model of kangaroo suggested an Aboriginal origin, and, in the 1890s, one of the more indefatigable recorders of the Aboriginal languages, Charles Meston, came up with an etymology that fitted the chronology-- and the geography--perfectly.
Both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age of Melbourne gave prominent coverage Monday to aboriginal leaders' plans to use the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games to bring global attention to the plight of indigenous Australians.
Second, a positive effort needed to be made to ascertain the Aboriginal name, and experience showed that the geographical range of Dharuk was extremely limited: the fact that a new set of names came into use as one crossed the boundary of another Aboriginal language must have mitigated against borrowing.
By this time, of course, the number and complexity of Aboriginal languages was well known, and the Port Jackson language, or Dharuk as it is now known, was long extinct.