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Australian Aboriginal languages and Indigenous Australians

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Difference between Australian Aboriginal languages and Indigenous Australians

Australian Aboriginal languages vs. Indigenous Australians

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. Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

Similarities between Australian Aboriginal languages and Indigenous Australians

Australian Aboriginal languages and Indigenous Australians have 29 things in common (in Unionpedia): Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal Tasmanians, Arnhem Land, Australian Aboriginal English, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Kriol language, Cape York Peninsula, Enindhilyagwa language, List of Indigenous Australian group names, Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, Luritja dialect, New Guinea, New South Wales, Ngaanyatjarra, Ngarrindjeri language, Northern Territory, Pama–Nyungan languages, Papuan languages, Queensland, Robert M. W. Dixon, South Australia, Sprachbund, Stolen Generations, Tasmania, Torres Strait, Victoria (Australia), Western Australia, Yankunytjatjara dialect.

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Aboriginal Tasmanians

The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Tasmanian: Palawa) are the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania, located south of the mainland.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Australian Aboriginal English

Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) refers to a dialect of Australian English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian population.

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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 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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Australian Kriol language

Kriol is an English-based creole language that developed from a pidgin used initially in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia in the early days of European colonisation. Later, it moved west and north. The pidgin died out in most parts of the country, except in the Northern Territory, where the contact between European settlers, Chinese and other Asians and the Indigenous Australians in the northern regions has maintained a vibrant use of the language, spoken by about 30,000 people. Despite its similarities to English in vocabulary, it has a distinct syntactic structure and grammar and is a language in its own right.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Enindhilyagwa language

Enindhilyagwa (also Anindilyakwa and several other names; see below) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Warnindhilyagwa people on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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List of Indigenous Australian group names

Below is a list of names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Indigenous Australians.

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Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages is a digital archive of endangered literature in over forty Australian Indigenous languages from the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Luritja dialect

The Luritja dialect is the dialect of the Luritja people and an Indigenous Australian Western Desert Language.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Ngaanyatjarra

The Ngaanyatjarra, also known as the Nana, are an Indigenous Australian cultural group of Western Australia.

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Ngarrindjeri language

Ngarrindjeri (also Yaraldi, Yaralde Tingar) or Narrinyeri (also written Ngarinyeri) was the language of the Ngarrindjeri people of southern South Australia.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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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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Papuan languages

The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Robert M. W. Dixon

Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon (Gloucester, England, 25 January 1939) is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Sprachbund

A sprachbund ("federation of languages") – also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, diffusion area or language crossroads – is a group of languages that have common features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact.

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Stolen Generations

The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Yankunytjatjara dialect

Yankunytjatjara (also Yankuntatjara, Jangkundjara, Kulpantja) is an Australian Aboriginal language.

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Australian Aboriginal languages and Indigenous Australians Comparison

Australian Aboriginal languages has 199 relations, while Indigenous Australians has 446. As they have in common 29, the Jaccard index is 4.50% = 29 / (199 + 446).

References

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