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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 .
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.
Dharuk Words In English
Borak was borrowed in the late 1830s and, perhaps because the Dharuk negative baal was already in use, did not last long in its primary sense.
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.