Source? Impressed on how Australia has been neatly divided into these seemingly perfect boundaries of clans. What was the population at the time? Looks like a few million…
I started learning Spanish because.... I actually don't know why, but there are a lot of reasons to do it. Now im having fun and so i continue. Also this video is REALLY good. Less than 100k views is criminal Empiecé aprender español por qué..... no sé. Pero disfrutarlo. Pues me gusta escuchar mucho música en español. Abak es muy genial y fantástico. La igual con la banda Nostra Morte. Mi español no es bueno, pero no me importa
Hi, you say "only a few" have official writing systems. I haven't done a count, but I would have thought it's a lot more than "a few"! (fellow linguist here, Australianist).
Came for a Stanley parable video, stayed for the linguistics! Very nice video! I learned German partly to graduate high school, and partly to be able to read and understand important works in my field of engineering. There’s something awe inspiring about being able to, albeit poorly, understand works by someone who doesn’t speak my native language but gets excited about the same mechanism as me.
I started learning Mandarin because I'm fascinated by Chinese characters. Kanji were my favourite part of the Japanese language, which I studied in school, and Chinese languages are essentially all kanji. Some of the simplified versions are excessively simplified and look ugly but overall I love how Mandarin looks. I also like the sound system, the history and culture behind the language, how I look like Indiana Jones deciphering hieroglyphics when I can read Chinese in front of my white friends, and how much depth there is. Mandarin Chinese is also something of a prestigious language in Australia, and quite useful. I like danmei too
wow this was a really fun video! thanks, i needed this. my reason for starting to learn turkish was basically just for fun. i thought it looked like a cool language with interesting grammar and a beautiful phonaesthetic. thinking of a goal is hard, but i guess i'd like to comfortably understand turkish media like songs and dramas without needing to look up every other word in a dictionary like i do now. also the "why would i feel the need to count?" part was so relatable. language learning is fun, i'm not trying to impress anyone with a number :))
@@LinguaPhiliax because centralisation happens around the most powerful and it would be interesting to know what Australian might have looked like if it was never colonised
Hey Linguaphiliax, where did you find out that the etymology of "Meanjin" is "spike"+"country"? I've never seen a complete enough Yuggera dictionary to notice compound words like that
Most of my knowledge comes from F J Watson's "Vocabularies of four representative tribes of South Eastern Queensland", which breaks the name down in that way.
