Ngunnawal Welcome to Country
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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The Ngunnawal people (alternatively Ngunawal tribe) are some of the Indigenous Australian inhabitants whose traditional lands encompass much of the area now occupied by the city of Canberra, Australia and the surrounding Australian Capital Territory. When first encountered by European settlers in the 1820s, the Ngunawal people lived in an area roughly bounded by what is now the towns of Queanbeyan, Boorowa and Goulburn. The Ngunnawal people were neighbours of the Yuin (on the coast), Ngarigo (who lived south east of Canberra), Wiradjuri (to the west) and Gundungurra (to the north) peoples. (Source: Wikipedia
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This is awesome 😃
I lived here for a year and a half and did not see one aboriginal person absolutely disgusting how they can just kill them all off unlike South Australia were i actually was born
My beautiful great great Aunty. 💓
she may be an auntie but she ain't a black fella kuntilly
The g is silent
Isee
at least she's trying isn't that what they say in Canberra
I was homeless in Canberra like a great deal of other people and was camping out in the bush I was trying to find out more about the local stories and language as I was camping on traditional ground, but it was made clear to me to mind my own business . also apparently the last lady who could speak the language fluently died she was supposed to have meetings with younger people to record the language but they were too busy protesting and she died and took the language with her . very sad that we only have white women left that know a few words picked up from the internet
But it's not entirely true that the language is lost. Yes, I believe we don't have a really great understanding of the Ngunnawal language, however we do have ways in which we can attempt to restore it. Mainly, I've found a document published in 1904 titled "The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales", which has an overview of the grammar as well as a dictionary of a handfull of words. Also, some words have still been passed down through to the current generations, so that can help with the restoration. But the thing is, with languages you can look at closely related languages and take an educated guess at what words might have been based off of what they are in those languages. It's not perfect, but it's still not nothing. So I guess what I'm trying to say, is that although the language won't be able to be recovered in full, it can be recreated reasonably well, and I guess it's something that you might like to know :)