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Aboriginal vs Darkinjung - What's the difference?

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aboriginal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
  • * 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
    • Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
  • Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
  • (Aboriginal)

    • Synonyms

    * (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primeval

    Derived terms

    * aboriginality * aboriginally

    Related terms

    * aborigine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal or plant native to a region.
  • * Charles Darwin
    • It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
  • (Aboriginal)

    • Usage notes

    * Using uncapitalized aboriginal to refer to people or anything associated with people may cause offence. * In Canada, style manuals recommend against using the noun Aboriginal for a person or people. * See also the usage notes under Aboriginal .

    References

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    darkinjung

    English

    (Darkinjung people) (Darkinjung language)

    Alternative forms

    * Darginyung * Darkinung * * Darkinyung

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A region of coastal New South Wales, Australia.
  • The Aboriginal people once associated with that region.
  • * 1995 , Tony Swain, Garry Trompf, The Religions of Oceania ,
    • Another incident, this time from the country of the Darkinung people (near Newcastle, New South Wales) illustrates our point.
  • (linguistics) The extinct language of those people.
  • * 1898 , , Initiation in Australian Tribes,'' in ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Vol. 37,
    • No. 4 represents the country occupied by the tribes speaking the Darkinung , Wannerawa, Warrimee, Wannungine, Dharrook and some other dialects.
  • * 1903 , , Languages of the Kamilaroi and other Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 33,
    • The Darkiñung speaking people adjoined the Kamilaroi on the south-east and occupied a considerable range of country in the counties of Hunter, Northumberland and Cook, extending from Wilberforce and Wiseman’s Ferry on the Hawkesbury river, to Jerry’s Plains and Singleton on the Hunter, and including the basins of the Colo and Macdonald rivers, Wollombi Brook and other streams.
  • * 1996 , Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas ,
    • Aboriginal languages spoken in the settled areas of the Cumberland Plain, which lies to the east of the Blue Mountains in the immediate vicinity of Syndey, included speakers of Dharuk, Iyora, Guringgai, Dharawal, Gundungura, Darkinyung and Awabakal.
  • * 1999 , The Archaeology of Rock Art ,
    • Four languages are recognised as being spoken across the study area at contact: Darginyung , Guringai, Dharuk and Dharawal.
  • * 2002 , , Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development ,
    • Old materials on O1, Dharuk, give 1du as ?ala'' or ''?alu'' and there is no explanation for the final vowel (note, though, that ''?ali is found in the closely related language O2, Darkinjung ).