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- European settlement wiped out half of Australia's indigenous languages, and around100 more are in serious danger of being lost.
Miriwoong is one of them. Spoken for tens of thousands of years in a part of Western Australia, the language has now just a handful of fluent speakers.
But there is a huge push to keep the miriwoong alive. So why is it so important?
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It's terrifying how quickly ones land can be ethnically cleansed.
@Billonaire Riches
Yeah except people taking over you doesn't necessarily have to include genocide.
Of course people will die in battles and armed confrontations but once one side is victorious it doesn't need to wipe out the other side.
Of course cultural genocide and economic loss happens most of the time when a nation conquers another one. But that's preferable in a way than to be completely wiped out.
Only place i can think of right now that has conserved their culture perfectly after being colonized is in New Zealand (Maoris) even though they never gained independence.
Then you have places like Mexico who lost most of their culture and language and mixed with the colonizers.
Or even places like Ireland and Scotland who got the English language and traditions imposed to them.
And places like India who conserved their culture but lost millions and millions in terms of economics.
@Billonaire Riches But only western civilizations will try to cheat and sabotage others, instead of competing with them fair and square. Just look are China and the U.S. America is crying foul in everything China does as China is now starting to lead the world in technology and innovations while the US is trying to bring back coal jobs.
@Billonaire Riches Careful with that shit eating attitude... Might bring something unforseen upon yourselves. Guns and firepower aren't the only methods of overpowering. People just need to be inspired. Careful with that inspirational attitude you have there! Nothing more dangerous and completely devastating than an unseen determined enemy...
@Billonaire Riches Reading comprehension. Give it another bash. Read what I said slowly.
@Good Average it was legal to hunt them as sport until 1978 you absolute belter
Not only language...but also widped out most of the indigenous people
Yeah European wiped out a lot of indigenous people around the world a take their land's
@@johnhighwood7261 karma m8
@@johnhighwood7261 africans country occupated by british. Now africans take thier right from europeans
John Highwood
Sounds like the nonsense conspiracy theories pushed by Nazis and white supremacists like the Christchurch shooter. Do you care about that?
@@AAA-ft8gs So why are they moving to Western Countries?
Don't say european. Everybody know its you britain
@@truth803 France??????
dutch too
@@truth803 no French, british, scottih, irish, danish, and netherland like in South Africa
Marlène Y why include the Scottish separately from the British?
alot of butthurt redcoats
There's approximately 6,500 languages in the world. The fact that people have learned how to communicate in so many different ways is amazing.
Australia was once home to 250 different languages. It was as linguistically diverse as Europe is, if not more
@@JamesBond-rb1lnaccording to many sources there were 300+ languages in Australia only few dozen are preserved today Europeans destroyed everything 💔
America had more native tribes
RIP all the millions of natives who have perished everywhere around the world
Yes the their sufferings are heartbraking
It doesn't surprise me anymore that Homosapiens is the only Human sub-species left on Earth.
@shreyan kanvinde Kya Hal hei? Ha, yeh such hei☹️
RIP To the millions of human beings who've parishes around the world. Stop with the bs. There's no race, no culture, no ethnicity which hasn't suffered.
deez nuts
I’m Aboriginal Australian, I wanted to share that there are HUNDREDS of different Australian Aboriginal languages, but only around 20 are only spoken a lot today- there’s not just one language and tribe. There’s hundreds of different ‘countries’ across Australia with different cultures within themselves. I’m from Kamilaroi, which is a large plains tribe in New South Wales.
Nice video, thanks!
I’m not Aboriginal but I’ve lived in Australia my whole life and I’m so glad you pointed this out because I know that there are going to people who watch this video and think this is the sole indigenous language in Australia.
@@elenirose4945 yup that’s what I was thinking 😅
I know this. I am white (Scottish/European) I play Yidaki professionally (but not traditional style) I demonstrate the instrument in British schools and speak of its use a a sacred item.
I ALWAYS use tribal names for the instrument and its uses, I also speak of the terrible damage purpetrated by my ancestors and how many tribes there used to be ..it's the least I can do.
I ALWAYS mention that there were many many different tribes, not just Yolngu from whose words I quote.
@@BaddaBigBoom Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.
@@aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065 To me cultural appropriation is more like a white American dressing up in pseudo-Native dress as if it was a costume. This man here actually knows the Australian Natives and respectfully introduces their culture to British kids, so they'll be aware of it and think it's important to protect it. Doesn't sound bad to me.
aboriginals look so different from all the other human races. It's super interesting.
I feel all native people from all lands look unique. but that may just be because we hardly see any depending where you live.
sadly there is so few of them
@@franklinQR they all look like jesus
Aborginal skulls also look quite different from European, Asian and African peoples skulls. Look it up on google, its quite interesting
Was gonna say this probably why they were so treated so bad
@@franklinQR look at your racism oozing out from you like some rotten pus. Disgusting
They look very similar to the indigenous peoples of South India.
DNA may agree.
That’s because the people migrated from South India to South East Asia to Australia. So they look close to each other
The real australians..
king lehar Get ready for the comments.
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@King Alfreds Shieldwall It doesn't matter if they built a couple of buildings it's still not there land and never will be. The Europeans belong in their original homland.
@Phoenix Swooping Well tough luck now you know how the native Australians feel.
King Alfreds Shieldwall, You have said, 'I'm white British/European. My people built the modern world. ' Sweetie that statement alone simply shows your lack of education... Your credibility, if you actually had any to start with, was blown with that one statement of yours...have a nice day.
Ironic how the BRITISH broadcasting company is now the trying to save the language 😂
The BBC didn't even exist when the language was being suppressed so it's an extremely weak argument; "muh British". Whatever country you are from has also committed atrocities culturally and physically
Bjorlam I’m British u idiot 😂
@@bjorlam8201 you missed the key word. BRITISH. it was us british who brought english to australia and now the bbc wants to help save a language that has almost been wiped out by the english language.
I'm sorry but if the language dies it won't end the world will it.
@@swishyswampy489 well if islam takes over, the world wont end will it? but we don't want islam to take over do we?
The natives in Australia look like an interesting mix of Indians, Africans and Native Americans. Truly magnificent.
They are Austroloids.
yes because its a hot climate.... the skin adapts to be darker to stop sunburn
@Khushi Bidhuri south maybe
I don't see the American in them to be honest. Just the Indian and african.
@Khushi Bidhuri north and south indians are same
"European colonisation wiped out many indigenous languages here"
well that's a fancy way of saying the British
It wasn’t just the British tho but yes mainly
Gaelic was also wiped out in Scotland,but because Gaelic was the universal language of the ancient world.
That every nation was taught
Gaelic as a second language.
Aboriginals had to teach the Scottish people how to speak their own indigenous language Gaelic.
@@bethymears2648 Huh? Gaelic was not a worldwide language.
Real Australians.............💯💯💯
Arunkumar R - not really. Australia as a a country was a white invention. It's a Latin word after all
@@danidejaneiro8378 those are real Australians.
@@bradley604 - not really. Australia as a country was a white invention. It's a Latin word after all.
@@bradley604 - thanks, but I don't need a seppo telling me my history. If Europeans had never arrived, it wouldn't be called Australia because Australia is a European invention which has only existed since 1901. It's a Latin word after all. Or did you think illiterate isolated hunter-gatherers were fluent in Latin and continent-naming hahahaha
@@danidejaneiro8378 I never said that dummy but what I said is basically the whites living in Australia are not original inhabitants but they are all Europeans who moved on to Australia in the past.
alternate title: the language australians spoke before being colonised by britain
true !
@karonic ゝ so your argument for defending colonisation is "they did it too so we did it".
one word : childish.
i love this title
There were over 250 languages spoken by Aboriginies before it was colonised, all Aboriginies were nomadic and didn't have civilisation therefore because they were restricted to smaller tribes there was not one official language really that prevailed throughout. I guess this language would have been the most spoken out of all of them though. It's good to keep the languages going though.
@karonic ゝ by common you mean britain and france colonising 2/3rds of the world?
The saddest part is that although there are dozens of endangered languages such as Miriwoong displayed in the video, there are dozens more that have already been lost permanently.
Good, they’re useless lol
There is around 300 native australian language so it’s gonna be hard to preserve all of them.
I don't mean any disrespect, but I really don't see any point in trying to, artificially, keep language from changing and evolving. That's simply what happens with language. What is the necessity of keeping THIS specific language around?
@@jesussaves6625 i think whats happening is that theyre struggling to still keep the language alive, its not like they want to stop speaking the language its just becoming irrelevant to modern life and thats why were trying to preserve it
as sad as it is that we lost all the languages of cro magnon and neanderthals
What a pointless exercise, those children would be better served learning the main languages of the world, not some stone age dialect of a dead language in which there was never any written script & a language that has no merit anywhere else.
Shh, you’ll upset the children
I am a Tamil guy. For some reason I feel an unavoidable connection with these people. Love from India 💗
Happy diwali
@Vain V why don’t we share, it’s both of our homes now? What’s done is done, but we’ve made our own culture together, blacks and whites alike
watch this BBC documentary. You have your answers from 41:01 to 52:10 in this!!!! th-cam.com/video/W_xTG6VXlIQ/w-d-xo.html
People all african, so called south indians, australians are lived together in leumoria continent. That got sank into sea then the people moved to different parts of world. For example child said tac chi as grandmother. In tamil we called acchi for granny so..
தமிழர்கள்
Wow indigenous Aussies looks like something mixed between Indian and African.
that guy tho looked like the lorax
@@jimmea6317 lmaoooo 💀
They are biologically closely related to the southern Indian, and the Easter islander. Artefacts found in the island were those of an ancient word similar found in southern India and Sri lanka too that dates back 50000 years or more.
@Jay Jay Who was it then?
They look like people from Eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
As an Aboriginal Australian, it’s nice to see *some* kind comments ❤️💛🖤 thank you
how did your people exist in Australia for 50,000 years and never develop anything?
@@laki5717 developed a sustainable lifestyle that could have gone on forever without destroying the planet for a start. I’m not here to pick fights man
@@laki5717 what about a boomerang??
@@teleportedfunk lmaooo
@@lucymasters4910 thus morning i ask my dad why aboriginals never develop anything. he said ' because of their lifestyle, there is no need to'
Aboriginals look like a lost race of human beings, they are very interesting, extremely strong and adaptable, incredible people. Hugs from Brazil.
@PrimaryHades colonisation hasn’t been kind to any ethnic group or culture throughout history, sadly Aboriginals are became victims of this, but that’s superpowers for you I guess, the brits were conquered for many centuries until they eventually rose up to become the biggest and most powerful Empire the world has seen so far, and in their wake left trails of destruction and death, I hope history doesn’t repeat itself but it’s a bit of a stretch to believe it won’t happen again, anyways I hope everyone can get along better moving into the future
@PrimaryHades ,they haven't been kind to themselves.
Yes they very interesting and their simplicity is awesome. Hugs from India also.
You don't know the truth, that's the problem. This is all propaganda. Aboriginal society now is extremely patriarchal, women have less rights than Muslim women. Forced teenage marriages to 40 year old men, murder, rape. Aboriginal men are lazy, habe zero interest in holding a job.
50,000 years being separated from the rest of us really shows. They are human yes, but less evolved.
BBC: "European colonisation wiped out many languages here."
THAT'S WHAT A BRITISH COMPANY WOULD SAY
@Vain V That's factually false, so why would you say something so incredibly stupid?
@Vain V 🤡
@Vain V 🤡🤡🤡 I'm trying to decide if you're funny or sad, but we'll stop here. You can go bait reactions from someone else now 🤡🤡🤡
BBC and universities stopped using the word pioneer and replaced it with coloniser.
@@ionidhunedoara1491 pioneering what? Genocide, the practice of destroying cultures and languages, and erasing history?
Shut the fuck up dumbass
They are the real Australians the Australians today are British
SSS PANDA EXACTLY! it’s not like the British accent doesn’t give them away! Lol I don’t get how people don’t notice that... they go oh no my accent is not “british” it’s Australian... just because they have a couple of slang words and small variation in a handful of vowels... anyways,thank you for pointing this out!
No, wrong. Many Australians have Irish, German, Greek, Italian, Arab, Chinese or Vietnamese ancenstry. Calling all these people British, when not even their accent sounds British, is just pig ignorant.
If it is Australian and American,they are so quick to defend that the Europeans living there are in fact Australians and Americans but if the person is Asian living in Britain,they are so quick to dehumanized them
Oh I thought nationality did not equal race? Besides, there was no concept of Australia before Europeans arrived.
@@Miquelalalaa Europeans arrived and exploited Australia just like they did to my country india
Sometimes BBC comes back to their senses.. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
My girlfriend didn’t come back to her senses after she tried bbc:((
aboutthetruthmedia organization as a Black person in America who’s lived in the uk just stop. Just because you’re world view gets challenged and theBBC isn’t afraid to call out bigotry and hatred when they see it doesn’t mean they are distorting reality...truth is truth.
Bye now I’m going back out because I have a life and friends and I’m not a racist idiot like you
When you result to insults, the argument loses.
So much nope
I think children should be taught Arabic numerals.
Why do people ACTUALLY care about keeping a dozen or so people speaking an old isolated and useless language in the most diverse place of language on the planet?
Britain used to have hundreds of languages, only about 6 are left and now everyone can communicate openly with eachother and actually develop and improve their lives instead of speaking an old tongue limited to an old impoverished village.
If you actually care about a dying language, learn it yourself instead of saying others should. Make it your own crippling and practically useless task.
Especially when there’s no literature of any significance in that language. You’re better off bringing Latin back
@@AsianTheDomination At least Latin has some purpose, I mean hell it technically never truly died since we use it in literature, law, medicine, science and so on.
But to make a literal toolshed speaker population language be forced or pitied to be learned by the majority is a waste of time unless the language brings actually some advantage over others.
@@sr.mental5876 what is the purpose of language my friend?
And now Europeans are teaching everyone about human rights 🤣
You can't change the past but you can improve progress to the future
They've always been hypocrites
@It’s ya boy Who started by going to other people's land? Yes, the europeans now its time to taste your own medicine.
@@baileyi594 Yes, snd you can do it by leaving their land if you regret what your ancestors did. BTW nice line.
The irony
Hello guys. I am a Tamilian - a ancient race from India. After seeing this video, I feel a lot of words are connected to my language Tamil. I hope some research scholar will find the connect.
My son looked this up and found there is a CONNECTION...
Unmaidhan nanba
There might already be videos about that on TH-cam. I follow a channel called NativLang and it has taught me about how some languages are connected.
For example?
Yes
Even though I am a Telugu guy, I understand Tamil, and I was genuinely shocked to the language the old guy is speaking. Many of the words sound Tamil. And TBH the old man looks a bit Indian too.
That language actually sounds like tamil.
This man is looks like Tamil man
Yes
Actually tamil and the orginal Australian are related
Yes like irula tribes in Tamil Nadu -Kerala border.
Exactly like our Irulas and Kurubas and all. I ve been to Uluru to see and understand that world a little. And believe me, some of the aspects of their culture are very similar to Irula, Kuruba, Toda and all, in Tamil Nadu.
It is believed that Australian aboriginals are our true ancestors.
The lady beard is real... gross
Hormonal problem maybe?
@@myself5812 it seems very common though
boys, it's a completely normal thing, in women from all nations, to grow facial hair after menopause. You're not seeing it in the women around you because (a) post-menopausal women are rarely shown in mainstream media and (b) there is a strong cultural push for women to remove all hair (not just on the face).
@@catherineallen6024 yuck
They look alike Tamil people.
English is going to kill all Indian languages.. unfortunately, Indians ignore this fact and fight among themselves saying Hindi is being imposed.. Telugu is being imposed.. Tamil.. etc...English and christianity is going to hijack tamil language and its culture
They are the same, southern India first migrates to Indonesia when the land is connected due to the Ice age, Those people later Migrate to New Guinea and Australia, while the Indonesian got mixed by Asian people from Vietnam and Austronesian from Taiwan, the Aboriginals and most Papua people leave untouched, so they are technically still the same race as Southern India.
@@ravinunna1168
First stop imposing Hindi !
Don’t worry about Tamil ! It will survive !
@@fakuri913 no India and Australia we’re connected to kumari kandam a continent so people are same but after ice age continent submerged land split and India joined north land to form Himalayas and Australia moved further east
@@vinushadoss4124 Lmao no, that's million years ago before human even exist
I really like what that guy said about how if you have an identity it makes you stronger and you are less likely to feel like you need to commit a crime because you already feel like you truly possess something
they speak language up the north west and aboriginal crime is out of control - next theory
@@jimlofts5433 its like hood culture in america. if they cant get opportunities for a life thats good they aint gonna live a good life.
0:06 *Gay guy means grandma.* You heard it here first, folks
lol
Hehe
Hey look at my gay guy
XD XD stop
No you!!
British invaded US. Cleansed the nstives
British invaded AU. Cleansed the nstive
@iuvenis animo i d not even reply just a dumb commie
Don’t forget Canada 😂
Also, don't forget - because of the British, you can sit at a keyboard on a comfortable chair, instead of sitting on a mud floor eating bugs.
@iuvenis animo Completely true. Apparently, King George III wanted to only hold onto the 13 Colonies and leave the rest of the land to the natives. It was the Americans after the revolution that got trigger happy and sucked up as much land as possible. I don't blame them, we the British have done terrible things.
@@Master13346 umm i dont think the UK invented computers
The death of native languages inevitably results in generations of misfits.
No wonder the US has been struggling with itself since decades now. Even the emotional capacity of a person suffers i guess
Because of the pain and hurt that comes with it. The loss of something that was once loved and cherished
what a shit excuse lmao
It is absolutely disgraceful how Australia can exist seemingly blemish free when they have treated their indigenous people so horrifically. And continue to almost pretend that they don't exist.
No country exists blemish free you moron.
@@MrLudwig101invader moron
what storybook do you live in?
@@christine-ep4bx Your question is pure psychological projection. I suggest you educate yourself by watching a John Pilger documentary on the subject where you can see real people talking about this, living this. I don't think storybooks will do the job for someone like you, you need you see moving pictures. Happy learning buddy 😔
"European colonisation wiped out ..." - Oh now it's European, and not British? Interesting.
It wasn't just British settlers. For example, plenty of Germans came to Australia.
Marc it was mostly north and Western Europe. I haven’t heard of Greeks or Eastern Europeans besides Russians who colonized
the pioneers of colonisation have always been the British... they are also masters of ethnic cleansing...
@Jay Jay Britain has always been the undisputed champion... pinoneers in those particular fields... others were just wannabes
@Jay Jay can't get more accurate than that
1:05 Here European Colonist means only Britain. As no other European came to Australia except British. So accept your forefathers mistake British Broadcasting Channel (BBC)
Aboriginals look incredibly different than all human races.. intresting..
They look people from the Southern Part of India
@@santoshjudedsouza yeah i think it goes back to when australia was connected to india and they've been isolated since.
The phonetics is somewhat similar to Tamil(South Indian Language)
santoshjudedsouza No they don’t, not Kerala more Tamil nadu
I wonder how a mixed aboriginals look, it looks like a nice mix. Exotic
I think indigenous Australians are Dravidian they look exactly like south indians
They share a common ancestor, but have been separated for quite a long time.
The man looks so much like a South indian
Fun fact dravidians and aboriginals closely related.
Looks so much like a Tamil
Genetically they’re similar to adivasis.
The sounds in their language also kinda sounds like ours(Tamil)
I know many North Indians that look similar to him.
I am disgusted by many of the comments on this video. The Australian Aboriginal people are a beautiful people-group - imbued with all of the same dignity and rights you and I take for granted.
I agree. But come to Darwin mate and see that belief be tested everyday. It’s hard to keep faith in them when you see the shit some of them do everyday.
@@sebastianlodge7549 that's a very short term view of long term oppression.
@chocobonita they don’t even look the same wtf
@chocobonita Aborigines and Africans look completely different
@chocobonita Oh alright. Sorry, I didnt read the second thing you said in response to someone else.
This is awesome! I'm Welsh and sometimes in the history of our language, it has been a problem if someone spoke it (in schools at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, if a child spoke Welsh, they had to wear a 'Welsh not' around their necks all day, as a punishment). Hope this language is revived fully and many thousands of people speak it, to keep it alive!
Aboriginals should remember thei langua, also english dominance should stop so vi need not use their langua in international things, ther should be a constryucted langua for that, so enlish should learn it too and everyone keeps their own langua in their own land.
Better be glad that people can actually understand this comment then because it isn't in Welsh.
Really most of the people think that UK has only English as a language...
When people here in India hears about UK they don't know that it comprises of Welsh and Scotland....
We mostly think that UK is homogenous in ethnicity....
Need some welsh music on the radio singing in welsh
One side of a multifaceted story. English was itself suppressed and driven underground by French for hundreds of years, in England. That it survived is because it's so adaptable, a mongrel where everyone has a home if they want. English is fluid and friendly, many dialects, accents, pidgins and creoles. But it didn't have an easy start. You were not even a second class citizen in England when the French took over and imposed their ways upon the land and its language.
Olde English was beautiful and we lost many words, phrases and sayings in the transition to a Latin base.
2:40 "There is research that says"... followed by not mentioning what research, by whom, when and how it was conducted as some sort of proof for all the statements afterwards.
My thoughts exactly. I mean, the “language gives identity” part makes sense, but that isn’t research 😂
...It's a brief TV interview, not a dissertation.
In India we have tribes who have similar facial features like the man in thumbnail in a state called Chattisgarh..
Tapan Sharma yah those ancient tribes of India are very genetically similar to those native to Australia, these people groups were some of the first to leave Africa, it's amazing that some still live on today , yet sadly these indigenous populations are growing smaller. If you're interested the TH-cam channel Masaman does great videos on the topic. Peace
@@connlaffan6232 they are Austroloid
Even Tamils look like him.
@@connlaffan6232 Yup. The aborigines are directly related to the first humans to leave Africa.
Rooster
All people directly related, to Africa. Australians are genetically distant to Africa
3:05 Language means identity, well said. Most people in India don't realise that, end up imposing the majoritarian language on others.
Yet they don't have a written language. ..why
@@michaelbutson9235 চুপ কর, বোকাচোদা। India has more written languages and scripts than you have fingers in your hands combined with the toes of your feet.
@@Mrityormokshiya thankyou for that info but we must have our lines crossed some were becuse we were talking about Australia abarigerails. .
jaihind NatrajN yes i hate hindi ill never speak it
Everyone has right to speak and preserve there language .
As a tamilan I feel they are related to us🤔❤️
Is tamil the only south indian lanaguage?
@@eldhosesaji2327 no
Mate i know that tamil is not the only south Indian language malayalam kannada telugu are also south Indian languages, I was talking about your comment saying " as a tamilan I fell they are related to us" tamilans are not the only dravidians out there
@@eldhosesaji2327 n many dravidan languages are derived from tamil.. N tamil is oldest of all other southindian languages
@@shhhhh6873 they may have derived from tamil but they are separate languages apart from malayalam none of the other dravidian languages even sound like tamil
I am tamil
And their faces are so relatable to us
Omg 😳
Dravidians are the descendants of native Australians.
Gondgwana desendance
Even i too shocked looking at them. They are looking like my relatives. Only thing they are speaking in English.
S,true, they look like my grandparents.
People look like Tamil. The language also sounds similar to Tamil. ❤️
Gagayi (Aayi in tamil means grandma) 😀
@@02abishekprasad91 also in balochi
@@BigMoney398 oh really?
@@02abishekprasad91 well its more like mom but we can also call grandmother as aayi
@@BigMoney398 oh nice brahui is connected to tamil tho but it's interesting to see balochi and yeah we can call mom aayi too
It's heart-warming to see those beautiful children learn their mother language from their beautiful elders. Remember who u are . . .You are greatness
What greatness? Aboriginals have been there for thousands of years and invented nothing.
@@jimmydong8708 ok and
That blonde hair blue eyed white girl isn’t aboriginal, maybe like 2% lol
@@meep3035 aha bro 🤣 my brother is white and both of our parents are black we come in all colours 😆🤦♂️
TheKunsProject lol that girl is not aboriginal lmfao cope more, her dna test would at most say 5%
Studying aboard Australia for over one year, I was incredibly enchanted by the traditional culture. Many people out there are passionate, friendly and loquacious. I'm from China. Nonetheless, I was impressed by many people living in Australia as they have never taken me as strangers. That people truely appreciated all forms of nations in the world is respectable.
What were you studying? Australian? What is Australian?
@@betelgezaa I'm an overseas student from China.
@@vincentlui1456 then you study English .....Australian language is the language of aboriginals !
Up to 30% of Australia's population are immigrants, the highest of any nation with more than 1 million people. I like to think our diverse history makes us an especially tolerant people. I'm glad you enjoyed my country, and the culture of the traditional custodians of our land.
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor since when Australians are tolerant ? What about atrocities against aboriginals?
They are living in Australia, a rich modern country, yet they are interested in the past back when they were living technically in neolithic, before the british colonisation. Teach this people to live in the world of today and tomorrow.
BBC: "European colonisation wiped out many languages here."
Me: Really? I mean.. didn't you..?
@Siha ppl in this comment section saying colonialism was all bad but we the Europeans went to their lands and improved them or else they would still be living in mud houses
@@pepe3897 and sometimes they still are
Says the Turk. How's the Balkans you imbecile?
@@tristan3801 It is great brother. People are still talking their OWN languages and practice their OWN religions over there after more then 500 years of ruling. By the way there are many great bridges we built which are still in use. You should check. Peace.
@@sirinsaidemre Yeah, that's why Islam is there in Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, etc. Stop being hypocrites, like you have some moral high ground. You don't, and that's why every Balkan nation spilled blood for their independence, right? You're such benevolent rulers, is that a joke? The Ottoman Empire is up there with the world's worst things to happen to mankind. I'm not saying the European empires aren't any better, but you have no right to lecture anyone at all.
Did that grandma have a beard and mustache.
hahaha
That's what I wanna know
Handsome_Hero yes brother
some random geek yes bro
It's a dude with a soft voice
Should compare it with some indian languages.. must be a tamil.
No, it is more in common with language of Andamanese tribals. Generically too the Australian native people are connected to Andamanese. Tamils have W. Asian ancestry genetically.
@@rbk9915 basically andabmanese also from tamil background.
@@rajmohansg No that is false. Go read up. Don;t sprout nonsense which Tamil politicians peddle.
@@rbk9915 do u know history of tamil? Just give a try.
@@rajmohansg நான் தமிழன் தான் ஆனா முட்டாள் இல்ல. உங்கள மாதிரி அரசியல்வாதி சொல்ற புருடாவ நம்பறவன் இல்ல.
The are natives of lemuria
This language is similar to Tamil south Indian language
I am also a tamil guy but I don't find it similar to our language.
Name tamil la irrundaa yellam thiriumm
@@aravindhasamy7357 sathiyama enaku endha vaarthayum tamil vartha mathri therla nenga edha vachi solringa
@@prithiviraj3070 yavarum use panierrupangaa bro
@@aravindhasamy7357 tamil eh varadhu pola ungaluku XD
The miriwoong language sounds like Tamil
1:22 a man or woman?
Sua mae
A woman with hormonal problems probably
1:21 a female with a beard. Why the fuck do native australian look so unique...!
As someone who is from the ME, why are you shocked that a woman has a beard? I have seen many European women with beards.
@@athiran5856 Lol.
@Barney 04 ☕ oh I see. His haircut makes him look like a woman.
@@athiran5856 I have never once in my life seen any female with a beard, that's why I was shocked to see
bring back forgotten Languages!
I love your spirit and attitude. Wise. 👍
@@acetate909 They are still speaking their languages and it looks like they aren't ever going to stop. Wise of them.
@@acetate909 "Forgotten"? I personally believe it is infinitely wise of them to cherish and uphold their heritage, no matter how little of it remains still. Wise people.
@@acetate909 we answered this question at school . Every language has its own character and it's own opinion about the world . Every language is like a living organism that has different opinions and ways of thinking . By losing one language you lose the variety of opinions that express different opinions about our world and society
@@acetate909 They value their wonderful heritage and culture. That will always be infinitely wise, in my humble view. Don't know why that bothers you so much. I simply will not sway from this view. Good day.
the racism in the comments is terrifying, good god. just found out about these people today and wanted to learn more about them and their culture, glad to see others also respectful of it and appreciative but jesus the disgusting things some people have to say is just heartbreaking.
Yep, and it's very sad / disgusting that ppl think like that and can't keep their nasty comments to themselves. I don't understand how ppl can act like that. It's hard enough as it is to be an Aboriginal in Australia..then jump online and to see nasty comments from immature racist ppl...like come on just give us a break!🙄....But thanks it's a good feeling knowing that other ppl from other cultures wants to learn more about our culture.😊
Kayla Lee i can’t imagine how awful that must be. i recognize that i’m privileged enough to not be judged for my race and culture in my country, and i can’t fathom how horrible it must be to have people acting stupid about it both online and in the real world. much love to you and hope that people learn to accept and appreciate others for their differences and unique cultures and lives rather than bringing them down for being themselves! 💖🖤💙💚
@@morcoroni Thanks. I don't expect everyone to love us and whatever...they don't have to but I wish they could at least have some respect, but not only to us but to everyone in general that comes from different cultures and have different backgrounds.
Thank you so much for your kind words, it means a lot. A lot of people out there judge us based on what they've heard about Aboriginal people or our appearance. Sometimes it get as bad as us not wanting to be Aboriginal...but at the same time we should be and is proud to belong to such an amazing culture. Bless your kind heart, you're such a lovely person. A lot of love goes out to you!💕💕💕
Kayla Lee thank you :,) and i fully agree! racism is racism and hate is hate, and it all stems from people not taking the time to stop and think and consider others or ask questions and learn to respect and understand other people, i hope as the world matured more people learn this
is it racist to make comparisons? to ask questions? to be practical rather than sentimental? Disagreeing with something does not automatically make you racist. I disagree with the traditional punishment of spearing through the thigh. (A certain if slow death sentence from infection and starvation) Is that racist of me? I don't share the beliefs about Dreamtime but is that racist?
When that man described "everything that moves is language, has language and cannot be described in words" is the same feeling shared by Tamil community on tamil language.
lol
you are right. I felt the same way.
@@TheSmith645 nee ennatha pudingitanu solra.. Tharperumaiku artham therinchitu vada tharkuri..
@@preetamyadav7952 bihari
@@satanshameer690 I am haryanvi
woman with a goatee, nobody wants to talk about that?
No, let us forget please.
@@cloudskipa lest we forget
@@oceandweller2314 It helps keep away the hwite colonisers lol.
This sounds very much like a nilotic African language. When I close my eyes, I hear my African grandmother. I'm shocked.
They seem like an old mix of Asian and African, like they're their own race
@@manager-nim2623 They're actually the least related to modern Africans out of every racial group on earth
@manager-nim they're basically the same race as modern South indian ppl
@@LuckyDukeSeven from what I heard they're descendants of Africa and considered black.
Genetically speaking Australian aboriginals belong to the paternal DNA Haplogroup C
Haplogroup C is highest in modern day Mongolians and Siberians, lowest in Africans and Middle Easterners.
BBC the irony wanna be the savor for these people but at the same time love and support middle east regime change and chaos😂😂😂
bbc is cancer.
are you having a stroke?
What do you expect, they are a "news" organization which means propaganda station in 2019
@1:24 wait hol-up. Does that granny have a full on goatee??
Oh shit, for real? Their faces all look the same!
Definitely an ancient race of human beings ...
@Bunker Sieben nope, I hate everyone equally.
@@lukeysharp94 Good lad!
@@lukeysharp94 a fellow man with culture i see. I hate em all with equal amount of hatred as well.
Language or culture would disappear coz it’s ppl r too busy drinking n sleeping out on the streets.
These peoples are looking like typical TAMILIANS, Hope they are ancient TAMILIANS
Hey dont generalise them as tamilans they are astroloid race which are also present west and south regions of india
@@trilok7070 lol joke
All indigenous ppl came from Africa. Don't connect everything to tamil
Abilash v. Please read about the lost continent Lemuria (Kumarikandam in Tamil). It is believed to be the cradle of civilisation. It was present in southern India extending from Madagascar in the west to Australia in the east. Scripts about this continent is mentioned in Tamil literatures which are scientifically dated 3000 to 5000 years back from now. Even recently they found more than 3 lakh years old stone tools near Chennai. You could search online for neanderthal tools near Chennai. There are always hard truths in this world which will not be spread due to the impact or changes it makes to history, ex: oldest religion practised was worship of God Shiva.
@Hugh Jass which language?
anyone know about Kumari kandam ?
I felt a strong connection to Tamil both in the language and in the appearances...
My country of Papua New Guinea has over 800 native languages. We are facing the same problems. I hope they will still be spoken in 50 years.
"Indigenous peoples learning their ancestral language", what a problamatic statement.
Why is that problematic...
@@ted1990 the situation that made indigenous people to "learn" their native tongue under an institutional set up (school) suggests the way the external influence (colonization) has exerted it's power and authority over their lives.
@@lalsurya2275 This comment is a prime example of White Savior Complex. Stop getting so upset on behalf of other people and go outside.
@@lalsurya2275 oh i agree. The statement isn’t problematic though. The events leading up to it are.
Well the Romans wiped out all my Celtic ancestors and culture, people are trying to save Gaelic too.
Definitely this got to be related to Tamil...
English is going to kill all Indian languages.. unfortunately, Indians ignore this fact and fight among themselves saying Hindi is being imposed.. Telugu is being imposed.. Tamil.. etc...
South indian people have problem with speaking hindi which is another indian language but they have no problem speaking in english..ironic.lol
They dont speak hindi... but south Indians are the multilingual people in India..they can speak atleast 3 to 5 languages.. they learn what is necessary. .that's exactly why they are the most wanted by multinational organizations to lead their worldwide operations...
@@MysteryMan101 do north indians learn south indian languages?
@@onlineealex north india is also multilingual.
These australian natives looks like south Indians , it seems they are the people who migrated to AUS long back.
As a South Indian I agree
Yes they are South Indian descendants new research suggests .
@Sahil Achary നമസ്കാരം
@@pyaariiilalfromindia8716 not really Kerala, more like Tamil Nadu look
@@culturedvulture2015 yep. But that grandpa looked like someone who has both tamil and Kerala features. Those grannies one the other had features of both Tamil and African
Lots of Tamil nationalists in this comment section, huh?
No, Miriwoong is not related to Tamil
They are speaking oldest Tamil dialects!!! 💯💯 Please do research
Pls post something you know. Iam a tamil
How do you say scamdemic in the Miriwoong language
@@theyredistortingyourrhthym8883Google it😅
@@theyredistortingyourrhthym8883 I guess Australia was never belongs to white! Just like how Europeans landed in America and red Indians were killed...same scenario here🤨
The famous Indian traveller Mr Santhosh george explains his experience on visiting natives of Australia.
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They look so similar to Indians. Indians/Dravidians, Australian aborigines and Africans are probably lost cousins.
Well their linguistic terms had some similarity with Tamil.
Gagayi is grandma in their language Aayi is grandma in Tamil.
Well a few tribea seem to have distant similarities with South indians. But rest are completely different.
@@abhisekpatnala I'm a Tamil Myself yeah that does sound similar in phoenetics nothing to brag about here n all but looks wise too thr around 15% similarity.
Heard somewhere that 1 of the aboringial groups in australia had some connection of DNA with that of south indians.
Anyways all humans are migrants & thats just fine.
@@abhisekpatnala Cool information bro. Was always fascinated about the Tamil language. This provided a lot of insight!!
I guess anything’s possible. Aboriginals believe in destiny and that Australia is their motherland (see out of Australia theory). There’s evidence of their DNA spread out all over the world.
Love Muffin...you are correct
இவர்கள் பேசுவதில் தமிழோசை கேட்கிறது.
Apdiye onnum ilaye.
@@ajaymadhusudan2481
Either you should be Malayali
Or
Telugu ?.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Odane tamil la relate panni vidathinga da
I am tamil, but I can't hear it 😅
The famous Indian traveller Mr Santhosh george explains his experience on visiting natives of Australia.
th-cam.com/video/N0ykNHLM9ww/w-d-xo.html
That lady has a beard
-HORMONAL IMBALANCE-
These people look like South Indians. Love you my people❤️❤️
@@eemil.894 Tamil Nadu, India
Not all South Indians, tamils.
Lol, Not all South Indians are Tamils..
True they look a lot like south indians and sri Lankans. There are still tribes in mountains of Tamil nadu and Kerala who resemble aborginies.
"language is identity",,,man that's such a powerful sentence!
Not really. If that's the case then there are 30 plus identities in India itself.
@@phoenixj1299 I am a Bengali Indian and we bengali people really believe in this statement that language is identity. It is only something which European race doesn't believe in
Holy smokes this is like a different species. Like the platypus. So awesome.
You are racist.
They are a link between primates and modern humans.
only in india they, the british the whites, couldnt destroy our pagan culture,proud to be pagan, proud to be a Hindu Indian we have our culture datingthousands of years before christ or the piece religion guy.yes i really meant Piece.
Nearly 11% of the Aboriginals have Dravidian or Tamil lineage in them. The Australian dingoes fossils never date back beyond 2217BC, the closest living relatives r the Indian Pariahs
It's Tamil only tamil can decode this language too
Mate I was thinking the exact same thing! The guy David in the video looked very Tamil or like a distant Tamil cousin or ancestor, I was quite surprised, and when I saw your video I knew that it was not just me thought this. How crazy is this huh?
Yep
The famous Indian traveller Mr Santhosh george explains his experience on visiting natives of Australia.
th-cam.com/video/N0ykNHLM9ww/w-d-xo.html
@yolo onlyonce no my friend, its not about who cares but rather about how even though we all might be different culturally and ethnically, but still we all have something common in our lives with which we can connect our history with. In the end of the day we're all just human beings in this earth going about our own lives. :) cheers mate. And like your username suggests, you only live once, why live it with hate?
The worst thing a people can have done to them is taking away their language.
Nah, being burned to death is worse.
@@MsNimpnimp trust me I will better burn to death rather than letting my language die. I breathe Tamil, the oldest language in the world.🔥
@@StarkEdits11 don't worry it's already dying when schools teach English nd French as first nd second languages(majority missionary schools) which is funded by the same west who destroyed other languages.
@@Visha054 No school in Tamil Nadu teaches English as first language. Even if they did we won't forget our Tamil. Tamil is spread already in Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Australia, and some parts of Africa.
@@StarkEdits11 Bro my cousin(chennai) themselves studied in missionary schools nd they studied English as first language nd took French as second language for scoring.. There "Tamizh" Is only as good as "reading movie names" Other than that there is zero tamizh knowledge,I myself am a Tamizh now residing in Andhra.
My great grandmother spoke Scottish Gaelic as her main language. She would have been born in the highlands around 1860-70. You really have to make an effort at a government level I think as I'm an example of a family that will have spoken the same language for thousands of years and it went from my great-grandmother speaking it as her first language to my granddad speaking as his second language to my dad not speaking a word of it. A total loss of culture and language in two generations.
Lol...to all the tamilians kanging here, please try to think that you guys are connected to rest of the Indians too
Just like we Jharkhandi people (tribal people of Indian state Jharkhand) call a bike - phatphatiya, it’s the sound that bike makes
Wo shabd pure desh me istmaal hota hai bhai..
Ye to hamareRajasthan me bhi bolte hai aur all india me bolte hai
Why are civilixations who havent figured out even the wheel surprised their lands are taken from them. I feel sorry for them I do. But a culture should progress and expand or it stagnates and dies. The Island of Great Britain is small but whether for bad or good our culture and influences will now exist in memory till the end of humanity.
I get your point, but its still kind of harsh to tell these people.
Let them have their language, it doesn't bother anyone.
Also, unfortunately nothing lasts forever
@@Bobotv1000 Wasnt in response to the natives. I wish em luck. Its good their getting to their language back. Its in response to some of the comments blaming soley the white invader for their cultures decline. Both our ancestors had the same amount of time to develop. Accept they had an entire continent and we only had an island. Yet it was our culture that forged an Empire (even if it was abit evil lol).
@@Etheral101 They had their own empires and did similar things. No need to feel bad. That's what the world is like.
They couldn't advance because there was nothing to farm. Britain could've helped them a lot. But alas, no.
@@woolworthspossum4370 Austrailia has vast natural resources including wood to create vessels for trade. If they had no crops they could have traded for such. It took significant investment, time and sometimes your life to get to Austrailia. We werent there to set up a self help group.
Bullshit... no language is special.
Sanskrit is
Nice Beard grandma lol
Somebody missed the 3000 B.C update
And a few more, too.
Greetings to natives Australian from natives Indonesian. We've been trading since ancient times even before the Europeans are coming.
Australians traded with Indonesians ? I thought Indonesians traded only with indians
ok PissMenn very cool!
@@prasoonkumar8131 Yes it was recognized by both Indonesia and Australia actually, they're Buginese Indonesian sailor and Aborigines from northern Australia(Darwin).
What did you trade?
Crazystuff nothing
How many languages were lost when the Miriwoong-speakers took over other tribes’ lands?
Ok we had war with other tribes but we didn‘t wiped out entire cultures or Languages
@@dolliest111 yes, the early pygmy inhabitants
Very refreshing to see this. 😳
Where I reside, some folks only know cursing and swearing to communicate. 😞
Thank you for posting.
Love from Michigan USA 💗
Peace ✌
The abos of Australia are an interesting bunch. A few more thousand years of isolation, and they may have just departed from homo sapiens. I say this with no hate or malice, but they genuinely do not look like they're capable of producing offspring with any other race. It's fascinating what gene isolation can do in a short timespan.
The general definition of a species is group of individuals who can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. A lot indigenous Australians are mixed with some degree of European. So your statement is completely false. You may have not intended it to be, but your statement is very racist.
As a Tamil I cant see them as foreigners. Those people look somehow our relatives
I've seen several comments like this and is most certainly worth researching!🥰 It's an encouraging thought to reach out to see, "How are we the same? Why is that?"😊❤🌺
@@Eowyn3Pride This language sounds similar to south indian languages especially tamil
Well….they are not your relatives. Leave them alone
I saw a video recently about classes in Mexico teaching the original Mayan language, and I've heard from people in Ireland that Gaelic started being re-taught in schools a while back. It's nice to see that the world is making such an effort to preserve culture nowadays, instead of trying to homogenize it.
Sorry but I don't see why this language disappearing really matters.
in tamil nadu state of india u can see this type of aboriginal australoid people