Are there any aboriginal languages on Google Translate?
Are there any aboriginal languages on Google Translate?
Google Translate currently supports 109 languages, only one of them an indigenous language. Bill Waawaate is Indigenous, smart, educated, and the millionaire-founder of a highly successful snowmobile company. He also is a comic book superhero from a First Nation in Canada.
What languages do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders speak?
In the Torres Strait three main languages are spoken:
- Kala Lagaw Ya is spoken on the western islands of Mabuiag and Badu.
- Meriam Mir is spoken throughout the eastern islands of Erub (Darnley Island), Ugar (Stephen Island) and Mer (Murray Island).
How many languages are spoken in Aboriginal?
First Languages and colonisation 250 Aboriginal languages were spoken around Australia at the time of British invasion. There were many dialects within each language group. Today, only 120 First languages are still spoken, and many are at risk of being lost forever.
What is the Aboriginal language called?
List
| Language | Alternative names | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Aboriginal English | Over 30,000 | |
| Australian Aboriginal Pidgin English language | Few | |
| Australian Kriol language | Creole, Pidgin English, Roper-Bamyili Creole | 4,200 |
| Awabakal language | Awabakal | 9 |
What is the most spoken Aboriginal language?
With just 4,264 speakers, the Djambarrpuyngu language is the most spoken Indigenous language in Australia and is spoken in Arnhem Land. Of the group of Western Desert languages, Pitjantjatjara, had the largest speaker number of this group and ranked second overall….
| Characteristic | Number of speakers |
|---|---|
| – | – |
| – | – |
What are the top 5 languages spoken in Australia?
Language spoken by a person at home (top 5)
- English only – 72.7% (17,020,417) English only – 76.8% (16,509,291)
- Mandarin – 2.5% (596,711) Mandarin – 1.6% (336,410)
- Arabic – 1.4% (321,728) Italian – 1.4% (299,833)
- Cantonese – 1.2% (280,943) Arabic – 1.3% (287,174)
What is the most spoken aboriginal language?
How do you say hello in Aboriginal language?
Some of the most well known Aboriginal words for hello are: Kaya, which means hello in the Noongar language. Palya is a Pintupi language word used as a greeting much in the same way that two friends would say hello in English while Yaama is a Gamilaraay language word for hello used in Northern NSW.
What do the Cree call their language?
Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi
The Cree language (also called Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi) is spoken in many parts of Canada, from the Rocky Mountains in the west to Labrador in the east.
