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Guugu Yimithirr language

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Guugu Yimithirr, also rendered Guugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir, and many other spellings, is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language...

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Guugu Yimithirr

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Look up Gugu Yimithirr or Guugu Yimidhirr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Guugu Yimithirr may refer to: Guugu Yimithirr people, an ethnic group of...

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Guugu Yimithirr people

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The Guugu Yimithirr, also spelt Gugu Yimithirr and also known as Kokoimudji, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Far North Queensland, many of whom...

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Linguistic determinism

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language Guugu Yimithirr spoken by aboriginal Australians and how it reinforces linguistic relativity. Deutscher introduces the Guugu Yimithirr language...

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Reconciliation in Australia

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had caught, thus violating local customs, the locals became angry. A Guugu Yimithirr elder stepped in, presenting Cook with a broken-tipped spear as a peace...

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Reflexive verb

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using a specific verb but by affixing a non-specific ending to it. In Guugu Yimithirr (a member of the Pama-Nyungan language family) reflexivity can combine...

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Reflexive pronoun

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Thằng John tự đánh mình (John hit himself.) A Pama–Nyungan language, Guugu Yimithirr uses the suffix /-gu/ on pronouns—much like -self in English, to emphasize...

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Kangaroo

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August. Guugu Yimithirr is the language of the people of the area. A common myth about the kangaroo's English name is that it was a Guugu Yimithirr phrase...

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Endeavour River

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The Endeavour River (Guugu Yimithirr: Wabalumbaal), inclusive of the Endeavour River Right Branch, the Endeavour River South Branch, and the Endeavour...

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Cardinal direction

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philosophy deeply connected to the four cardinal directions and the Guugu Yimithirr people use cardinal directions rather than relative direction even...

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James Cook

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local Guugu Yimithirr people. They celebrate the first act of reconciliation between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous people, when a Guugu Yimithirr...

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Taipan

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survived an Oxyuranus bite without antivenom: George Rosendale, a Guugu Yimithirr person bitten at Hope Vale in 1949. Murray writes that Rosendale's...

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Indigenous Australians

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the British Museum. Cook spent a greater period of time among the Guugu Yimithirr people around modern Cooktown in Queensland, where his ship was nearly...

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Linguistic frame of reference

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aboriginal languages (e.g., Arrernte, Guugu Yimithirr) and some Mayan languages (e.g., Tzeltal). In Guugu Yimithirr, there is no way to say "The cat is...

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Endeavour River National Park

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were first given their modern English name (borrowing from the local Guugu Yimithirr language). HM Bark Endeavour, under the command of Lieutenant James...

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First voyage of James Cook

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each year, with the support and participation of many of the local Guugu Yimithirr people. They celebrate the first act of reconciliation between Indigenous...

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Cape York Peninsula

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Umpila, Wik Mungkan, Wik-Me'nh, Wik-Ngathan, Kugu Nganhcara, Guugu Yalandji, Guugu Yimithirr, Kuuk Thaayorre and a multitude of Australian Aboriginal sign...

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Coastal taipan

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another three historical fatalities added in 1944. George Rosendale, a Guugu Yimithirr man, was bitten through his boots and thick socks while stacking wood...

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Wanderwort

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Hindi, Thai, and Amharic, among others. Kangaroo was taken from the Guugu Yimithirr word for the eastern grey kangaroo; it entered English through the...

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Walmbaria

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Queensland. Dingaal may be a clan name, and they may be related to the Guugu Yimithirr people. A 2010 source reported that the Walmbaria represented themselves...

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Quoll

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or taquol are derived from the word dhigul in the language of the Guugu Yimithirr people of far north Queensland. No evidence indicates the local indigenous...

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Language and spatial cognition

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of ...". The Absolute perspective (found in speakers of Arrernte, Guugu Yimithirr, Kuuk Thaayore, and Tzeltal) is based on cardinal directions such as...

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Linguistic relativity

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spatial categories in different languages. For example, men speaking the Guugu Yimithirr language in Queensland gave accurate navigation instructions using...

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Body relative direction

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but there are exceptions. Some Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimithirr, Kayardild and Kuuk Thaayorre have no words denoting the egocentric...

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Paman languages

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Umbindhamu † Lamalamic Umbuygamu † Lamu-Lamu Yalgawarra † Yalanjic Guugu Yimithirr Guugu Yalandji Barrow Point † (>> Wik?) Mbariman-Gudhinma † Djabugay †...

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Ithkuil

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Wakashan languages, the positional orientation systems of Tzeltal and Guugu Yimithirr, the Semitic triliteral root morphology, and the hearsay and possessive...

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Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale

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particularly concerned with the land and their ancestors and descendants. Guugu Yimithirr (also known as Koko Yindjir, Gugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir) is an Australian...

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