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Adding reference to Australia (as suggested by the folks at Excite) leads to the Brisbane Airport's monthly quiz.
Gunyah , the Dharuk word for dwelling, is matched by the Melburnian quamby , a verb meaning lie down, camp, and also a noun meaning shelter, by the Brisbane humpy , the Adelaide wurley , and the Perth mia mia .
Other loanwords repeat the Sydney pattern, striking or otherwise significant flora, fauna, and weapons being named: so there is the Tasmanian boobialla , a fruit-bearing Acacia, the Melburnian bullan bullan , a beautiful bird with a lyre-shaped tail, the Brisbane yungan gong, the Adelaide pinkie , a bilby or bandicoot, and the Perth quokka , a species of wallaby.
So, in Brisbane, dialects of Yagara were the first encountered, and the source of some sixteen loan words.
This was added to as it travelled north and west by words like yabber talk, based on the root ya -, found in Wiradhuri and other languages), the Yagara (Brisbane) words bung dead, humpy dwelling, and yacka work (as noun and verb), and, particularly, by names for flora and fauna the travellers now recognized as being commonly found in the inland.