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    Mer, Mir, Miriam-Mir, etc. and Eastern, Isten, Esten and Able Able) or the Eastern Torres Strait language is the language of the people of the small islands...
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    inhabited by the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders. Lieutenant James Cook first claimed British sovereignty over the eastern part of Australia at Possession...
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    published the Torres Strait Languages vocabularies of Sydney H. Ray. This is the only dictionary available for use by Torres Strait Islanders and people...
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  • Aboriginal; 4.0% identified as Torres Strait Islander; 4.3% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's...
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    Papuan, Eastern Trans-Fly languages, in particular Meriam Mir of the Torres Strait Islands, as well as the Papuan Tip Austronesian languages. Most Australian...
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    replaced by Torres Strait Creole. Before colonization in the 1870s–1880s, the language was the major lingua franca of the Torres Strait cultural area...
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    Arrernte at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional...
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    Torres Strait Islander Studies A51 Kartujarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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  • Thumbnail for Moa Island (Queensland)
    Government set aside an Aboriginal reserve on Moa's eastern shore for those who had married Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal people. In 1908 the Anglican...
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    people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups...
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  • Thumbnail for Stephens Island (Torres Strait)
    Stephens Island, called Ugar in the local Meriam language, lies in the eastern group of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago of Queensland, Australia. The...
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  • English - Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders" on YouTube "Robert Ah Wing - A Kalkatungu Language Story" on YouTube *Blake, B. J. (1979)...
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  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Crump, Des (17 August 2020). "Language of the Week: Week Twelve - Pitta Pitta"...
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  • Thumbnail for Warlpiri language
    and Torres Strait Islander Studies C43 Ngalia at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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  • Thumbnail for Woiwurrung–Taungurung language
    Woiwurrung–Taungurung at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional...
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  • Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken...
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  • signed form of their language. G10 Warluwarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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    and Torres Strait Islanders. In 2020, 7.5% of births were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons up from 5.7% in 2010; Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
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  • Umpila at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional...
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    Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, two broadly defined groups which each include other sub-groups defined by language and culture. Human...
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    and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Of the total 'Indigenous Australian' population, 90% identified as Aboriginal only, 6% identified as Torres Strait Islander...
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  • Thumbnail for Masig Island, Queensland
    language for this coral cay island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, situated in the eastern area of the central island group in the Torres Strait...
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    licensed text from: "Teppathiggi". Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages map. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 5 February 2020...
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  • Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: Bibliographies of published, rare or special materials on Diyari language and people. Ngayana Diyari...
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    Australians (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Torres Strait Islanders. The development of a distinctive Australian identity and national character began in the 19th century. The primary language is...
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  • Yoront at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional...
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    Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies K24 Waladjangari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database...
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    who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Far North Queensland. Sponsored by ASLIA, the Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association. Padden...
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  • Dhuwal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional...
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    language of those islands. The dhari is today a potent symbol for Torres Strait Islander people, and used in the Torres Strait Islander flag. Torres Strait...
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