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Australian Aboriginal Words: Words for facial features and other parts of the body

Here is the fourth video in which I discuss names for body parts in three Aboriginal languages of northwestern Western Australia, closely related Ngarla and Nyamal, and only distantly related Nyangumarta (all three languages belonging to the big Australian Pama-Nyungan language family). In this video, I introduce the words for ‘moustache’, ‘beard/whiskers’, ‘neck’, ‘shoulder’, ‘elbow’, and ‘knee’. Also brought up here is the interesting question of why there can be so many words for the same thing in an Aboriginal language. Why so many synonyms? As it turns out, there is a clear reason for this. NOTE: SINCE I RECORDED THIS VIDEO IT HAS BEEN POINTED OUT TO ME THAT ‘ABORIGINE’ SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A DEROGATORY TERM. I WASN’T AWARE OF THAT AT THE TIME OF THE RECORDING/EDITING. WELL, I’LL UPLOAD THE VIDEO ANYWAY, SINCE I HAVE RECORDED IT. I DON’T HAVE TIME TO RE-RECORD/RE-EDIT IT (BECAUSE TIME IS SOMETHING I DON’T HAVE A LOT OF AT THE MOMENT). WE’LL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT. #AustralianLanguages, #AboriginalLanguages, #AustralianAboriginalLanguages, #AboriginalWords, #Word, #Synonym, #Taboo, #BodyParts, #Reduplication, #Tongue, #Dictionary, #Borrowings, #Phonotactics, #Ngarla, #Nyamal, #Nyangumarta, #PamaNyungan, #Pilbara, #WesternAustralia