Written by London Swaminathan

Post No. 14,250

Date uploaded in Sydney, Australia – 27 February 2025

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When I read that Museum of Sydney deals with aborigine culture, I decided to go to the museum. I went there on 26^th February 2025; but I was disappointed because there were only documentary shows in three different dark rooms. I watched part of each documentary. One showed the etchings on rocks done by the aborigines. Though the documentaries are informative, nothing came from original aboriginal objects or paintings.

One documentary showed how the English occupied Australia, New Zealand and other islands. Beautiful flowers and plants discovered by the English were shown on huge screens. As a botany student I watched it keenly.

But my disappointment was partly gone when I got a printed card with aborigine words. As an amateur linguist, I went through it and found nothing was related to Tamil or Sanskrit.

But one should not jump to any conclusion based on one card matter. We know that 250 languages are/were spoken by the tribes in the vast Australian continent. 250 groups of people came to the continent from different places in different times. A few may be from Tamil or Sanskrit speaking areas of India. (My old articles on this site show their relationship with India).

Here are the words found on the card, freely available from the Museum of Sydney. They are from EORA tribe who lived in Sydney region before the English occupation.

The Eora are an Aboriginal Australian people who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney region. The term “Eora” is an Aboriginal word that means “the people” or “from this place”

Bamal – earth, clay, the ground

Nangamay- dream

Waruvi- girl

Bangala- basket

Guwing- sun

Murungal-thunder

Dyinuragang-old woman

Ganing-cave

Ngaramang-dance

Gayanayung-oldman

Buruwa-cloud

Nuwi-boat (only word close to Sanskrit Nauka; English word Navy came from it)

Wungarra-boy

Bara-fish hook made from shell, wood or bone

Gunang-spear

Garrigarrang-sea

Warrawal-milky way

Mungi-lightning

Duruga-meteor, falling star

Dganaba-laughter

Garadyigan-doctor ,clever man

Buruwang-island

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My Analysis :

Aboriginal words have RR in many place names:

Example- Canberra, Parramatta

They end with NG sound like Chinese and North East Indianlanguages:

Example- Beijing, Da Nang, Shillong, Kurung

Most of the words have long AA sound.

—Subham—

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