Example sentences for: nyungar

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  • The ignorance surrounding the Tasmanian languages betrays the fact that the relationships between convicts and later settlers and the Tasmanian Aborigines were of a hostility unreached elsewhere; the continuing fertility of Nyungar by contrast results from a much happier and more accommodating relationship.

  • The Case of Nyungar

  • So the Aboriginal equivalent of the Creation is Dreamtime , itself a translation of alcheringa (an Aranda word), bark hut is preferred to gunyah or humpy, country to the Kamilaroi towri , and walkabout to the Nyungar pink-eye .

  • 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.

  • 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.


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