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    or the Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below) is the language indigenous to the central and western Torres Strait Islands...
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  • Strait Island peoples. Although counted as Indigenous Australians, Torres Strait Islander peoples, being predominantly Melanesian, are ethnically and culturally...
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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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  • and Torres Strait Islander Languages, and Framework for Classical Languages including Classical Greek and Latin. Year 12 enrolments in Languages Other...
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    spoke a language other than English at home. 93.0% of Saibai Islanders follow Christianity. In 1606, Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through Torres Strait islands...
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    Ugar (Stephens Island) in the eastern Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. In the Western Torres Strait language, Kalaw Lagaw Ya, it is called Mœyam or...
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  • identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. Since 1995, the Australian Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag have...
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    include both Tasmanian languages and the Western Torres Strait language, but the genetic relationship to the mainland Australian languages of the former is...
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    2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum (category CS1 Tamil-language sources (ta))
    referendum held on 14 October 2023 in which the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice was rejected. Voters were asked to approve an alteration to...
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    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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  • (extinct) Torres Strait Islander Sign Language Umpila Sign Language * Warlmanpa Sign Language ** Warlpiri Sign Language ** Warluwara Sign Language * (extinct)...
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    the Torres Strait Islander workforce went on strike in the first organised challenge against government authority made by Torres Strait Islanders. The...
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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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    Manjiljarra were. A80 Western Desert at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies C2 Ngalia...
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    This island is one of the Torres Strait Islands. The language of Badu is Kala Lagaw Ya. The Mura Badulgal (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation administers...
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    Worrorra 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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    distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. People first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago and formed as many as 500 language-based groups. They...
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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. The origin...
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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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  • Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken...
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  • traditional four-season calendar used by most western European peoples. Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people have distinct ways of dividing...
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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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    Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal...
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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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    Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies K24 Waladjangari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database...
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  • Australia that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education...
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  • Aboriginal sign languages. A43 Ngaatjatjarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies...
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  • Kartutjarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Claire Bowern and Quentin...
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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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