sometimes white people are like 'can you speak aboriginal?' and im like I can call you white in six different aboriginal languages☺️
People forget that theres over 250 spoken Aboriginal languages and it's not including aae, kriol, or Torres Strait Island languages.
and many languages such as my great grandmothers tongue is dead with the last native speakers passing away.
I can speak Aboriginal but not in the way a person might learn a second language, such as french.
I speak Aboriginal english first, I know certain Aboriginal words for certain things.
I know how to say crocodile in Larrakia, I know how to say brother in Yolngu
I can say goodbye in three different languages.
I live in QLD so the language and gestures are all Murri, and the north is different from the south. Sometimes the spelling for a word differs via location.
sometimes I sing songs in pitjantjatjara, maybe I don't know what they mean exactly but I understand the vibe.
sometimes I look up a word and its got a completely different meaning to one I knew growing up.
sometimes I look up a word and I can't find it anywhere. Sometimes there's no one left alive who could tell me the original meaning or how it changed over time.
sometimes Indigenous languages are more than a set of grammar rules.
