Yolŋu Matha (IPA: [ˈjuːŋuːl ˈmaːtaː]), meaning the 'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the...
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Yolngu (redirect from Yolŋu people)
the Northern Territory of Australia. Yolngu means "person" in the Yolŋu languages. The terms Murngin, Wulamba, Yalnumata, Murrgin and Yulangor were formerly...
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Duala) is one of the Yolŋu languages spoken by Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory, Australia. Although all Yolŋu languages are mutually intelligible...
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Yolŋu (Yolngu) or Penguin Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia....
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Australian Aboriginal languages, four belong to the Western Desert grouping of the Central and Great Victoria Desert. Yolŋu languages from north-east Arnhem...
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Arandic languages Thura-Yura languages Southwest Queensland Karnic languages Northwest NSW Yarli Paakantyi Western Yolŋu-Ngarna (weak support) Yolŋu languages...
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Didgeridoo (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
most strongly associated with Indigenous Australian music. In the Yolŋu languages of the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land the name for the...
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The languages of Australia are the major historic and current languages used in Australia and its offshore islands. Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages...
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Djinba is an Australian Aboriginal Yolŋu language, spoken by the Djinba in eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Dialects of the two moieties are (a)...
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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
voice that attracted rave reviews. He sang stories of his land both in Yolŋu languages such as Gaalpu, Gumatj or Djambarrpuynu, a dialect related to Gumatj...
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Dangu) and Djangu (Djaŋu) constitute an Australian Aboriginal language of the Yolŋu group, spoken by the Dhaŋu and Djaŋu people in Australia's Northern...
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Kakadu National Park which is named Djirrbiyuk after this bird. In Yolŋu languages it is known as guyiyi or walkuli. Eggs of Dendrocygna arcuata - MHNT...
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Australian Aboriginal languages throughout Australia, including: Yolŋu languages; which refers to white ochre as gapan. Noongar language; which calls red and...
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Djäpana (category Songs in Yolŋu languages)
"Djäpana", subtitled Sunset Dreaming, is a 1989 song by Australian musical group Yothu Yindi. The song was first released in August 1989 as the second...
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Sign Language Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles as a language of the...
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Northern Territory of Australia. The Yan-nhaŋu language belongs to the Yolŋu Matha language group of the Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia...
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Treaty (song) (category Songs in Yolŋu languages)
in Australia and was the first song partly in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain extensive international recognition, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard...
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the Kunwinjku language of West Arnhem Land, the snakes are known as kedjebe (or bekka in Eastern dialects), while in the Yolŋu language of East Arnhem...
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Australia (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole), Djambarrpuyngu (a Yolŋu language) and Pitjantjatjara (a Western Desert language) were among the most widely spoken. NILS and...
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Bias against left-handed people (category Articles with text in Slavic languages)
"right" as well as "actual", "correct", "straight" and "true". In the Yolŋu languages, one word is used to mean "right" or "right hand" as well as "correct"...
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2022. List of Australian Aboriginal languages at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) List of Australian Aboriginal languages at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) L17...
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Djinang is an Australian Aboriginal language, one of the family of Yolŋu languages which are spoken in the north-east Arnhem Land region of the Northern...
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Yingiya Mark Guyula (category Pages with Australian languages IPA)
Yolŋu people. Guyula was born and raised in Mirrngadja in Arnhem Land where he lived on his country with his family and extended kin learning a Yolŋu...
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Marryuna (category Songs in Yolŋu languages)
" Apple Music said "Seamlessly slipping between English and his native Yolŋu Matha, Marryuna' is a brilliant, infectious, and incredibly welcome addition...
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Greater-Pama-Nyungan language family, and Bowern acknowledges that some linguists suggest Tangkic has close relations to the Pama–Nyungan Yolŋu languages. McConvell...
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Jeffrey Heath (category Linguists of Muskogean languages)
years of fieldwork: first on Australian languages (1970s; primarily in Arnhem Land on Gunwinyguan and Yolŋu languages), then on Muslim and Jewish vernaculars...
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1971 as a member of the Gumatj clan and a speaker of the indigenous Yolŋu languages, on Elcho Island, off the coast of North East Arnhem land in Australia's...
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Lists of languages List of proposed language families "Glottolog 5.0 -". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2024-06-28. "What are the largest language families...
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Name Result Rationale Baker Boy Won For his work in celebrating the Yolŋu languages through music and connecting First Nations young people in remote communities...
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Swamp and Catchment, Castlereagh Bay Bi Ngong, Bi, Yolŋu (including speakers of the Yolŋu languages Djinang, Djinba, Djambarrpingu, Ganhalpuyngu, Mandhalpuyngu...
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