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Kalarko Language
Galaagu, also spelled Kalarko and Kallaargu (and also known as Malpa), is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It has recently been classified as the closest relative of the Nyungar languages.Bowern, Claire. 2011.How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011correctedFebruary 6, 2012) See also *Kalarko–Mirniny language *Mirning languages The Mirning or Mirniny languages are a pair of Pama–Nyungan languages of the Nullarbor Coast of Australia. *Mirning language, Mirning (Mirniny) *Ngatjumaya language, Ngadjumaya (Ngatjumaya) Galaagu language, Galaagu (Kalarko) and Kalaamaya la ... References Nyungic languages Goldfields–Esperance {{ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of , and is also the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth. Western Australia has a diverse range of climates, including tropical conditions in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley, deserts in the interior (including the Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victoria Desert) and a Mediterranean climate on the south-west and southern coastal areas. the state has 2.965 million inhabitants—10.9 percent of the national total. Over 90 percent of the state's population live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner and around 80 percent live in the state capital Perth, leaving the remainder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalaako
The Kalaako (Kalarko) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Country Norman Tindale assigned the Kalaako tribe a reach extending over , running up north from Green Patch and Scaddan to beyond Widgemooltha. It takes in Mount Monger, Golden Ridge, and Burbanks. Their eastern boundary lies some west of Fraser Range, at a site mined for red ochre, known in the native language as ''Karkanja''. Their western frontier is around the Bremer Range. The Johnston Lakes, Mount Holland, Barker Lake, Koongornin, Norseman and Salmon Gums all lie on what is Kalaako territory. The tribes neighbouring the Kalaako are, clockwise from the north, the Maduwongga, the Tjeraridjal (n.e.), the Ngadjunmaia, the Njunga due south; the Wudjari, the Njakinjaki, and the Kalamaia to the northeast. Alternative names * ''Kalarko'' * ''Malba'' (Wudjari exonym An endonym (also known as autonym ) is a common, name for a group of people, individu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pama–Nyungan Languages
The Pama–Nyungan languages () are the most widespread language family, family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia. The name "Pama–Nyungan" is a merism: it is derived from the two end-points of the range, the Pama languages of northeast Australia (where the word for 'man' is ) and the Nyungan languages of southwest Australia (where the word for 'man' is ). The other language families indigenous to the continent of Australia are often referred to, by exclusion, as non-Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not a taxonomic term. The Pama–Nyungan family accounts for most of the geographic spread, most of the Aboriginal population, and the greatest number of languages. Most of the Pama–Nyungan languages are spoken by small ethnic groups of hundreds of speakers or fewer. Many languages have become extinct, and almost all remaining ones are endangered in some way. Only in the central inland portions of the continent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyungic Languages
The Nyungic languages are the south-westernmost of the Australian Aboriginal languages: *Nyungic **Noongar language ** Galaagu language (Kalarko, Malpa) ** Kalaamaya– Natingero Galaagu and Kalaamaya/Natingero are poorly attested; it is not clear how close they are to each other or to Noongar, and Kalaamaya may have been a variety of Noongar proper. A variety called ''Njakinjaki The Njakinjaki (Nyaki Nyaki) are an indigenous Noongar people of southern Western Australia, in the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions. Country Njakinjaki traditional territory embraced some of land. They were east of Lake Grace, at Newdega ...'' (''Nyaki Nyaki'') has been variously said to be a dialect of Noongar or of Kalaamaya. The term ''Nyungic'' has been used for the bulk of the Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages (see). However, that is a geographical group, not a demonstrable family. Bowern restricts both terms to Noongar plus Galaagu, which is poorly attested and had been misclass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyungar Languages
Noongar (), also Nyungar (), is an Australian Aboriginal language or dialect continuum, spoken by some members of the Noongar community and others. It is taught actively in Australia, including at schools, universities and through public broadcasting. The country of the Noongar people is the southwest corner of Western Australia. Within that region, many Noongar words have been adopted into Australian English, particularly names of plants and animals. Noongar was first recorded in 1801 by Matthew Flinders, who made a number of word lists. Varieties It is generally agreed that there was no single, standard Noongar (or Nyungar) language before European settlement: it was a subgroup (or possibly a dialect continuum) of closely related languages, whose speakers were differentiated geographically and, in some cases, by cultural practices. The dialects merged into the modern Noongar language following colonisation. A 1990 conference organised by the Nyoongar Language Project Adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalarko–Mirniny Language
Kalarko–Mirniny is a Glottolog classification that includes: * Kalarko language * Mirniny language Mirning (Mirniny) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territo ... References Glottolog languages that correspond to more than one Wikipedia article {{IndigenousAustralian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirning Languages
The Mirning or Mirniny languages are a pair of Pama–Nyungan languages of the Nullarbor Coast of Australia. *Mirning language, Mirning (Mirniny) *Ngatjumaya language, Ngadjumaya (Ngatjumaya) Galaagu language, Galaagu (Kalarko) and Kalaamaya language, Kalaamaya, once classified with Mirning as part of a Kalarko–Mirniny language, Kalarko-Mirniny family, are now considered closer to Nyungar language, Nyungar. References {{Australian Aboriginal languages Mirning languages, Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
