Example sentences for: dharuk

How can you use “dharuk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Much the same sort of continuum exists in the west, where Nyungar, which had a number of advantages over Dharuk, has provided for more than 150 years a source of loan words.

  • Although there are still a few Dharuk descendants in the vicinity of Sydney, and these may still use a handful of Dharuk words, Dharuk effectively ceased to function as a language by the mid-19th century.

  • It is ironic that lubra , a word for a black woman—usually a younger woman than is connoted by the Dharuk gin —was one of the few survivals of the Tasmanian languages, in which it has been suggested that it meant penis.

  • That is not because their presence had made no impact on English, for more than fifty words were borrowed from Dharuk, most of them in the early period.

  • 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.


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