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    Tiwi /ˈtiːwi/ is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Tiwi people on the Tiwi Islands, within sight of the coast of northern Australia. It is...
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    The Tiwi Islands (Tiwi: Ratuati Irara meaning "two islands") are part of the Northern Territory, Australia, 80 km (50 mi) to the north of Darwin adjoining...
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    the Tiwi Islands, lying about 48 kilometres (30 mi) from Darwin. The Tiwi language is a language isolate, with no apparent link to the languages of Arnhem...
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  • Tiwi can refer to: Tiwi, Albay, a municipality in the province of Albay, Philippines Tiwi, Kenya, a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province Tiwi, Oman, an...
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  • Indian languages. American Anthropologist, 13, 250–282. Osborne, C.R., 1974. The Tiwi language. Canberra: AIAS Sapir, Edward (1921). Language: An introduction...
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    Ganja (category Articles containing Tiwi-language text)
    marijuana in several languages, such as Indonesian/Malay (ganja), Khmer (កញ្ឆា, kanhchhea), Lao (ກັນຊາ, kan sa), Thai (กัญชา, gancha), Tiwi (kanja), and Vietnamese...
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    Tiwi, officially the Municipality of Tiwi (Central Bikol: Banwaan kan Tiwi; Tagalog: Bayan ng Tiwi) is a 1st class municipality in the Province of Albay...
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  • Word taboo (redirect from Taboo Language)
    following languages exhibit examples of taboo-motivated lexical replacement: Coast Salish languages Southern Bantu languages Tiwi language Haruai language Another...
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  • Bias against left-handed people (category Articles containing Tiwi-language text)
    word for jutumparra, which means both "right-handed" and "straight". In Tiwi, palinganyini (feminine: palinganyinga) means "left-handed", but it can also...
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    Abiquiú, New Mexico (category Articles containing Tiwi-language text)
    Española Public Schools. Abiquiú means "wild chokecherry place" in the Tewa language. It is also called Santo Tomás de Abiquiú and the Pueblo of Santo Tomás...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Australia (category Articles containing Tiwi-language text)
    12 November 2023. "Murrulawamini in the Tiwi Dictionary". Tiwi Dictionary. Retrieved 12 November 2023. "Tiwi Islands' Sistergirls: Remote Island Community...
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    America, Kanoê in South America, and Tiwi in Australia are all examples of language isolates. The exact number of language isolates is yet unknown due to insufficient...
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    been evasive in talking about her past and has never taught her the [Tiwi language]; Lauren expresses shame and embarrassment in not knowing anything about...
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    Voiced velar approximant (category Articles containing Tiwi-language text)
    velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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  • dialects: Tiguacuna (Tiwakuna), Tuei (Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi), and Shiripuno. Sabela is not known to be related to any other language. However, it forms part of Terrence...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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    communities. Seven of the most widely spoken Australian languages, such as Warlpiri, Murrinh-patha and Tiwi, retain between 1,000 and 3,000 speakers. Some Indigenous...
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  • grammatical changes often hamper efforts to revitalize endangered languages (as with Tiwi in Australia), and that a division can exist between educated revitalizers...
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    There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling...
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  • (Pitcairn-Norfolk: Norfuk) (increasingly spelt Norfolk) or Norf'k is the language spoken on Norfolk Island (in the Pacific Ocean) by the local residents...
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  • Tiwi (2,053). There were also over 10,000 people who spoke an Indigenous language which could not be further defined or classified. Three languages are...
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    LGBT rights in the Northern Territory (category Articles containing Tiwi-language text)
    and homosexuality. The Tiwi Islands have the highest per capita population of transgender people in Australia. 5% of the Tiwi population identifies as...
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  • Agta language may be extinct. The Mount Iraya Agta live on the eastern side of Lake Buhi in Camarines Sur, near the border with the town of Tiwi, Albay...
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    1896 and he returned to the Coburg Peninsula with four Tiwi people and learned the Tiwi language from them. He later returned to Yermalner in 1905 with...
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    The Tiwi Islands Region is a local government area (LGA) of the Northern Territory, Australia. The LGA covers an area of 7,483 square kilometres (2,889 sq mi)...
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    Palawah (or Pallawah) in Tasmania Tiwi on Tiwi Islands off Arnhem Land (NT) Other group names are based on the language group or specific dialect spoken...
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  • June 1931) is a community and heritage advocate living and working on the Tiwi Islands of the Northern Territory of Australia for more than 50 years. She...
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    quite unusual among Australian languages. Also unusual is the velar approximant /ɰ/, which is an areal feature shared with Tiwi and Kunbarlang. The vocabularies...
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    Our Lady of Salvation (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    statue of the Virgin Mary that was first venerated in Joroan (now part of Tiwi, Albay) in the Philippines. The image was canonically crowned 25 August 1976...
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    Dayak people (redirect from Dayak language)
    (54): 117–138. doi:10.2307/3351167. hdl:1813/53986. JSTOR 3351167. Etika, Tiwi; Schiller, Anne (1 May 2022). "Kaharingan or Hindu KaharinganWhat's in a...
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