Aboriginal Languages Australia

Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, born in 1788, is, or was, exactly 150 years older than your modern-day amateur student of Awabakal, the Lake...

Picture the lonely austere missionary the Rev. Lancelot Edward Threlkeld, deep in Aboriginal country sometime between 1834 and 1837 in...

The Lake Macquarie missionary the Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld produced a grammar of the language where his mission was established. This...

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES, LAKE MACQUARIE, FOR MDCCCXXXVIII Ebenezer, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, December...

Just to the west of Hornsby, a northern suburb of Sydney, is Old Mans Valley. One might reasonably assume that the name was inspired by...

The following was included in a notice about a future public visit to Muogamarra, dated 15 April 2013: Muogamarra Nature Reserve is a...

Mooney Mooney is on the Hawkesbury River. There is a club there where lunch may be had, with a balcony offering a view over the water;...

THOSE WERE THE DAYS A generation after the upheaval of 1788 and the arrival of the First Fleet, and around 150 km north of Sydney,...

Bokhara In a press report in the Sydney Morning Herald for the last day of 2010, there was the following entry: Moderate to major...

barang crops up a lot. It seems to mean ‘carry’, ‘bring’ and the like. But is is also used in combinations, where it seems to have the...

A large number of Nyungar words end in -gur but no common thread jumps out to suggest a meaning. gur also occurs on its own, as does the...

There are several words to express ‘bad’, but it is interesting to note one similarity between the Nyungar language of south-west Western...