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Australia is made up of hundreds of indigenous lands and language groups many of which carry sacred knowledge not shared with the broader public. So it's not to
by evolve2k 12y ago
Australia is made up of hundreds of indigenous lands and language groups many of which carry sacred knowledge not shared with the broader public. So it's not totally surprising that this hoax survived as long as it did.
To give you a fascinating extent to how varied indigenous lannguage groups of Australia are check out this map. We're not talking dialects/accents here, we're talking unique languages where I've be told in many cases people share very little traditionally language except for possibly some similarities with their direct neighbouring lands.
http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/ http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/
- new299 12y agoAnd they're even eventing new languages! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/linguist-finds-a-language-in-its-infancy.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/linguist-finds-a-l...