Display and discuss slides 10-11 of the Original Inhabitants PowerPoint. Using published resources available between 1988–1994, this map attempts to represent all the language, social or nation groups of the Indigenous people of Australia. Learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Additionally, the tribal groups were divided into clans. [2] Many Aboriginal adults and children in Central Australia are speakers of one or more Aboriginal languages as their mother tongue. Thus the maintenance of these languages was generally left to just a few. Language groups such as Yolnu Matha ("the people's tongue") are not languages. Language groups were further subdivided into clan groups comprising several family groups.
I live on Awabakal land.
Clan groups share a common language and kinship system, which is based on either patrilineal or matrilineal lines of descent.
Some language groups extend this by having distinct male and female forms, giving a total of sixteen skin names, for example the Pintupi (listed below) and Warlpiri. Regions were determined using the watershed basis as a template. Major Aboriginal Group names Koori: Represents Aboriginal people from the South East of the Australian mainland (Let’s say anywhere south of Kempsey down to Melbourne). In the 1996 census more than 2000 South Australians claimed to speak an Aboriginal language at home. Noongar: Noongars (Nungas/Nungahs) are Aboriginal people from the South West of the Australian mainland. Within these nations there are clan groups, and within the clan groups there are family groups. Australian Aboriginal languages are a unique language group, having no generally accepted genetic connections with non-Australian languages. Aboriginal languages of the NT vary greatly in their grammatical structures, concepts and vocabulary. These groups were often referred to as tribes by colonists, and given European place names – the Adelaide Tribe, Mount Barker Tribe, Port Lincoln Tribe, Big Murray Tribe etc. The map displays some of the traditional languages once spoken by indigenous groups across Australia, and was created using data collected by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies … How important do you think language might be to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia? This map is just one representation of many other map sources that are available for Aboriginal Australia. Maps of the Noongar groups of the south-west often do not contain the word Noongar (or the variants), but the language group names. ‘Tribe’ is a European word that tends to imply western preconceptions developed from colonial experiences. In this way the country was divided into small parts of land by the different language groups, tribes or nations. This map is just one representation of many other map sources that are available for Aboriginal Australia.