Warlpiri languageThe Warlpiri ( or ; Warlpiri pronunciation:) language is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by close to 3,000 of the Warlpiri people from the Tanami Desert, northwest of Alice Springs, Central Australia. It is one of the Ngarrkic languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family, and is one of the most widely-spoken Aboriginal languages in Australia in terms of speakers.
Dyirbal languageDyirbal ( JUR-bəl; also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language and dialect spoken in northeast Queensland tradtionally spoken by the group of people known as the Dyirbal peoples (a term which also refers to one of the subgroups; the Dyirbal). Each subgroup had a dialect. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics there were eight speakers of the language in 2016 and 24 speakers in 2021. It is a member of the small Dyirbalic branch of the Pama–Nyungan family.
TabooA taboo is a social group's ban, prohibition or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred or allowed only for certain people. Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies. Taboos may be prohibited explicitly, for example within a legal system or religion, or implicitly, for example by social norms or conventions followed by a particular culture or organization.
Naming tabooCultural taboo in the Chinese cultural sphere Naming tabooChinese nameTraditional Chinese避諱Simplified Chinese避讳TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinbìhuìBopomofoㄅㄧˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋWade–Gilespi4hui4Yue: CantoneseJyutpingbei6 wai5Southern MinTâi-lôpī-huìVietnamese nameVietnamese alphabetkỵ húykiêng huýHán-Nôm忌諱𪬧諱Korean nameHangul피휘Hanja避諱TranscriptionsRevised RomanizationpihwiMcCune–Reischauerp'ihwiJapanese nameKanji避諱HiraganaひきTranscriptionsRevised Hepburnhiki A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere.
Australian Aboriginal languagesAustralian Aboriginal languages are those languages spoken by Australian Aboriginal people. There are more than 250 distinct languages. Australian languages have historically been classified into numerous language families.Classificatory kinshipClassificatory kinship systems, as defined by Lewis Henry Morgan, put people into society-wide kinship classes based on abstract relationship rules. These may have to do with genealogical relations locally (e.g., son to father, daughter to mother, daughter to father), but the classes bear no overall relation to genetic closeness. If a total stranger marries into the society, for example, they may be placed in the appropriate class opposite their spouse.
Highland East Cushitic languagesHighland East Cushitic or Burji-Sidamo is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in south-central Ethiopia. They are often grouped with Lowland East Cushitic, Dullay, and Yaaku as East Cushitic. The most popular language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers. The languages are: Burji (divergent)Sidamoid (also Sidamic) SidamaGedeoHadiyya–LibidoKambaata–AlabaThe four to six Sidamoid languages are all closely related.
PhonologyPhonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics) is the branch of linguistics that concerns how languages organize the foundational elements that make their words. In spoken languages, these are phonemes like vowel and consonant sounds that affect meaning. Examples of this effect can be found in comparisons of English words like bat and gnat. In sign languages, these are components of signs such as hand shape and location.
Austronesian languagesThe Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken by approximately 386 million people (4.4% of the world population). This makes it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers.
Bantu languagesLarge language family spoken in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Bantu languages (UK: , US: Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family, or a branch of the proposed Niger-Congo language family, containing about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and SoutheastAfrica. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
Parallel and cross cousinsHousehold forms and residenceExtendedMatrifocalMatrilocalNeolocalNuclearPatrilocalGrammarIn linguistics, grammar is the system of rules that governs how a natural language is structured and used, as evidenced by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern the use of clauses, phrases, and words. The term may also refer to the study of such rules, a subject that includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, together with phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. There are in effect two different ways to study grammar: traditional grammar and theoretical grammar.LexiconA lexicon (pl. lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word lexicon derives from Greek word λεξικόν (lexikon), neuter of λεξικός (lexikos) meaning 'of or for words'.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.