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Of the several word lists compiled by officers of the First Fleet, as the first group of convict-laden ships was known, that of Lieut. William Dawes is the most ambitious, attempting a grammar of Dharuk as well as a 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.
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.
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.
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.