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90 relations: A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia, Agglutinative language, Albany, Western Australia, Alveolar consonant, Anglic languages, Apical consonant, Approximant consonant, Australian Aboriginal languages, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian English, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Back vowel, Badimaya language, Bandicoot, Boodjar Nyungar Placenames, Carnac Island, Census in Australia, Central vowel, Charmaine Bennell, Cherax quinquecarinatus, Close vowel, Country, Crayfish, Death, Dialect, Dialect continuum, Diary of George Fletcher Moore, Dual (grammatical number), Ergative–absolutive language, Estuary, Foot, Front vowel, George Fletcher Moore, George Grey, Gerhardt Laves, Germanic languages, Glenys Collard, Grammatical aspect, Grammatical case, Grammatical number, Grammatical tense, Joondalup, Kalaamaya language, Karrikin, Kartu languages, Kellerberrin, Western Australia, Kinship, Labial consonant, Laminal consonant, ..., Lateral consonant, Latin script, Leonard Collard, Linkage (linguistics), List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin, Malleefowl, Manjimup, Western Australia, Matthew Flinders, Mid vowel, Mineng, Nannup, Western Australia, Nasal consonant, Ngadjunmaya language, Nhanda language, Noongar, Norman Tindale, Nyungic languages, Ongerup, Western Australia, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Pama–Nyungan languages, Peripheral consonant, Perth, Reduplication, Retroflex consonant, Rhotic consonant, Robert Menli Lyon, South West (Western Australia), Stone tool, Stop consonant, Subject–object–verb, Swan River Colony, The West Australian, University of Western Australia, Velar consonant, West Germanic languages, Western Australian English, Wilfrid Douglas, Word order, Yagan. Expand index (40 more) »
A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia
A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia is a book by George Fletcher Moore.
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Agglutinative language
An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination.
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Albany, Western Australia
Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital.
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Alveolar consonant
Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.
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Anglic languages
The Anglic languages (also called the English languages or Insular Germanic languages) are a group of linguistic varieties including Old English and the languages descended from it.
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Apical consonant
An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.
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Approximant consonant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
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Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated twenty-eight language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.
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Australian English
Australian English (AuE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia.
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Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is an independent Australian Government statutory authority.
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Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
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Badimaya language
Badimaya (sometimes recorded as 'Parti-maya') is an Australian Aboriginal language.
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Bandicoot
Bandicoot are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivore in the order Peramelemorphia.
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Boodjar Nyungar Placenames
Boodjar Nyungar Placenames is an online resource of Western Australian Nyungar aboriginal place names.
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Carnac Island
Carnac Island is a, A Class, island nature reserve about south-west of Fremantle in Western Australia.
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Census in Australia
The census in Australia, or officially, the Census of Population and Housing, is a descriptive count of population of Australia on one night, and of their dwellings, generally held quinquennially.
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Central vowel
A central vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Charmaine Bennell
Charmaine Bennell is a Noongar author and illustrator from Western Australia.
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Cherax quinquecarinatus
Cherax quinquecarinatus is a small freshwater crayfish endemic to the south-west corner of Australia.
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Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in American terminology), is any in a class of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.
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Country
A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.
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Crayfish
Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, crawldads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.
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Death
Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
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Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.
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Dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties are not mutually intelligible.
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Diary of George Fletcher Moore
The diary of George Fletcher Moore is an important record of early colonial life in Western Australia, because it is one of a few records that were written from the point of view of an ordinary colonist, as opposed to the official correspondence of a salaried public official.
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Dual (grammatical number)
Dual (abbreviated) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.
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Ergative–absolutive language
Ergative–absolutive languages, or ergative languages are languages that share a certain distinctive pattern relating to the subjects (technically, arguments) of verbs.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Foot
The foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates.
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Front vowel
A front vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth without creating a constriction that would make it a consonant.
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George Fletcher Moore
George Fletcher Moore (10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000).
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George Grey
Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer.
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Gerhardt Laves
Gerhardt Laves (July 15, 1906 - March 14, 1993) was a graduate student at the University of Chicago and Yale University who between August 1929 and August 1931 undertook extensive fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.
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Glenys Collard
Glenys Collard is a Noongar educator and writer.
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Grammatical aspect
Aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, denoted by a verb, extends over time.
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Grammatical case
Case is a special grammatical category of a noun, pronoun, adjective, participle or numeral whose value reflects the grammatical function performed by that word in a phrase, clause or sentence.
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Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two", or "three or more").
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Grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference with reference to the moment of speaking.
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Joondalup
Joondalup is a regional metropolitan city within Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of Perth's central business district (CBD).
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Kalaamaya language
Kalaamaya, also spelled Karlamay, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia.
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Karrikin
Karrikins are a group of plant growth regulators found in the smoke of burning plant material.
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Kartu languages
The Kartu languages is a group of Indigenous Australian languages spoken in the Murchison and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia.
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Kellerberrin, Western Australia
Kellerberrin is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, east of Perth on the Great Eastern Highway.
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Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
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Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
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Laminal consonant
A laminal consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue on the top.
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Lateral consonant
A lateral is an l-like consonant in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.
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Latin script
Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.
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Leonard Collard
Leonard Michael Collard (born 24 December 1959) is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies University of Western Australia.
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Linkage (linguistics)
In historical linguistics, a linkage is a group of related languages that is formed when a proto-language breaks up into a network of dialects that gradually differentiates into separate languages.
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List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin
These words of Australian Aboriginal origin include some that are used frequently within Australian-English, such as kangaroo and boomerang.
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Malleefowl
The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related).
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Manjimup, Western Australia
Manjimup is a town in Western Australia, south of the state capital, Perth.
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Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.
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Mid vowel
A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.
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Mineng
Mineng, also called Minang or Menang are an indigenous Australian people of southern Western Australia.
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Nannup, Western Australia
Nannup is a town and shire in the South West region of Western Australia, approximately south of Perth on the Blackwood River at the crossroads of Vasse Highway and Brockman Highway, linking Nannup to most of the Lower South West's regional centres.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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Ngadjunmaya language
Ngadjunmaya (Ngajumaya) is a recently extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that was located in the Goldfields-Esperance region.
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Nhanda language
Nhanda, also known as Nhanta and Nhandi is an Australian Aboriginal language from the Midwest region of Western Australia, between Geraldton and the Murchison River, from the coast to about inland.
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Noongar
The Noongar (also spelt Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, Yunga) are a constellation of peoples of Indigenous Australian descent who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.
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Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
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Nyungic languages
The Nyungic languages are the south-westernmost of the Australian Aboriginal languages.
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Ongerup, Western Australia
Ongerup is a town south-east of Perth and east of Gnowangerup in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
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Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
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Palatal consonant
Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
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Pama–Nyungan languages
The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of indigenous Australian languages, containing perhaps 300 languages.
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Peripheral consonant
In Australian linguistics, the peripheral consonants are a natural class encompassing consonants articulated at the extremes of the mouth: labials and velars.
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Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.
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Reduplication
Reduplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.
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Retroflex consonant
A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.
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Rhotic consonant
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.
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Robert Menli Lyon
Robert Menli Lyon (1789–1874) was a pioneering Western Australian settler who became one of the earliest outspoken advocates for Indigenous Australian rights and welfare in the colony.
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South West (Western Australia)
The South West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.
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Stone tool
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone.
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Stop consonant
In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
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Subject–object–verb
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order.
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Swan River Colony
The Swan River Colony was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia.
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The West Australian
The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.
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University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia.
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Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).
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West Germanic languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).
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Western Australian English
Western Australian English is the English spoken in the Australian state of Western Australia (WA).
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Wilfrid Douglas
Wilfrid Henry Douglas ("Wilf") (4 July 1917 – 22 March 2004) was a missionary, linguist and translator, and carried out important early work on many indigenous Australian languages.
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Word order
In linguistics, word order typology is the study of the order of the syntactic constituents of a language, and how different languages can employ different orders.
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Yagan
Yagan (c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Indigenous Australian warrior from the Noongar people.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyungar_language
