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Dharuk Words In English
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.
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.
Thus the languages of the New South Wales inland—Wiradhuri and Kamilaroi and its dialect Yuwaalaraay—formed part of a borrowing continuum which began with Dharuk and which incorporated the Australian pidgin which David Collins, an officer of the First Fleet, had described as a barbarous mixture of English with the Port Jackson dialect.
But, though the Nyungar words supply a more comprehensive picture of Aboriginal life than do the Dharuk or those from any single inland language, the greater number of words used to denote key notions of Aboriginal belief and life are special uses of English words like cleverman, which has replaced words like the Dharuk koradji and the Nyoongar boylya , which are effectively obsolete.