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Kangaroo installation crop.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Each word for ‘kangaroo’ in more than 180 Australian languages was extracted from the original hand-written version of Curr’s compendium of Aboriginal languages.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Anaiwan country
Bungaree at Kiarabilli (Kirribilli), 1831
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages, Arts, Objects & Technology
Summary: 
Bungaree, a Kuringgai man from what is now known as the Broken Bay area of New South Wales, is thought to have shared some of his people’s vocabulary with William Dawes.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Mob, Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Auntie Maureen Sulter (Gamilaraay, Coonabarabran) in Warrumbungle National Park
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Bundjalung people are seen in these photographs with the objects they used in their daily lives.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
in 'Comparative vocabularies of three native languages', 1955
Uncle Lloyd - Clark Island.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Uncle Lloyd Walker welcomes people to Coastal Sydney and to the 'Living Language' exhibition.
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
This station was occupied in 1835 and is situated on one of the tributaries of the Macleay river
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Turuwul.jpg
Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Early linguists and ethnologists sought out John (Johnny) Malone (c 1820–1880) and his wife Lizzie (c 1830–1901), later Golden, as language and cultural knowledge holders. 
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
He began to study Aboriginal languages and, while on a preaching tour of the Liverpool Plains, took a special interest in Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi)
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Community: 
State Library of NSW
Category: 
Country & Culture, Languages
Summary: 
Sydney CBD (Gadigal country) from Clark Island; Gamay (Botany Bay).