Definitions
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- proper noun An Australian Aboriginal people who live in northern
Queensland . - proper noun The language spoken by those people.
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Examples
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Nope. kangaroo is "Aboriginal" (actually, Guugu Yimidhirr), as is boomerang (although narrowed down to NSW). pindan, the one contribution Bardi's made to English, is also "aboriginal" (I wrote to them about that one).
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I thought that everyone knew that this was a (pretty un-mangled) loan from Guugu Yimidhirr ganguru 'large black wallaby species'?
the-inbetween.com 2008
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Theories were advanced that kangaroo simply meant "I don't know," for instance, but no appropriate phrase existed in the language (Guugu Yimidhirr) of the area.
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Only when John Haviland began his study of the language in 1972 was it generally accepted that a word, pronounced gang-uru, was the Guugu Yimidhirr term for a large black or gray kangaroo.
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