Aboriginal vs Kartu - What's the difference?
aboriginal | kartu |
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]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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Of a family of Australian Aboriginal languages of Western Australia.
* 2001, Juliette Blevins, Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia
As an adjective aboriginal
is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive .As a noun aboriginal
is an animal or plant native to a region .As a verb kartu is
.aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
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
kartu
English
(Kartu languages)Alternative forms
* KarduAdjective
(-)- Though Nhanda was first classified by O’Grady, Voegelin, and Voegelin (1966) as a Kartu' language, where the ' Kartu subgroup included Badimaya, Malgana, Nhanda, Wajarri, and Yingkarta, the free pronouns of Nhanda suggest otherwise.
