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australia

English

(wikipedia Australia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
  • * 1693 : translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of ) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe'' published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in ''The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
    • This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
  • * 1814 , (Matthew Flinders), A Voyage to Terra Australis , volume 1 ( at Project Gutenberg)
    • Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
  • (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

    • Synonyms

    * (country) Aussieland (colloquial), land down under, New Holland (historial), Oz (colloquial), Terra Australis (historical) * (continent) Meganesia, Sahul

    Hypernyms

    * Antipodes

    Derived terms

    * Aussie * Australasia * Australia Day * Australia Felix * Australian * Australianism * Eastralia * Order of Australia * Westralia

    Related terms

    * Austria * Austrasie

    See also

    * * AU * Aust *

    External links

    * Australia time zones with map and map current local time in Australia. English words suffixed with -ia ----

    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 ).