2 aboriginal /ˌæbəˈrɪʤənl̟/ noun. plural aboriginals.
And if you are talking about both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it's best to say either 'Indigenous Australians' or 'Indigenous people'.
aborigine (countable and uncountable, plural aborigines) A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.
: a member of the original people to inhabit an area especially as contrasted with an invading or colonizing people. often capitalized : a member of any of the indigenous peoples of Australia.
Aborigine, the noun specifically meaning “an Indigenous inhabitant of Australia,” is an outdated and often offensive term: Don't say the Aborigines of Melbourne and Sydney. Instead, use the related adjective Aboriginal, which is preferred and acceptable, and say, the Aboriginal Australians of Melbourne and Sydney.
Aborigine
The term 'Aborigine' was commonly used up until about the 1960s but is now generally regarded as outdated and inappropriate. This is in part because 'Aborigine' is a noun, while 'Aboriginal' is an adjective sometimes employed as a noun.
'Aboriginal' should be written with a capital 'A' to show respect but also to differentiate Australian Aboriginal people from the aboriginal people all over the world.
synonyms for aborigine
On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to aborigine, such as: aboriginal, autochthon, indigene, native, primitive, and bushman.
Aboriginal Australians are the various First Nations peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as the peoples of Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the ethnically distinct Torres Strait Islands.
Some researchers have posited that the ancestors of the Aborigines were the first modern humans to surge out of Africa, spreading swiftly eastward along the coasts of southern Asia thousands of years before a second wave of migrants populated Eurasia.
1. Many aborigines died when they came into contact withdiseases. 2. The Aborigines are the native inhabitants of Australia.
Noun. Aboriginal (plural Aboriginals) An Aboriginal inhabitant of Australia.
It is generally held that Australian Aboriginal peoples originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia (now Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and have been in Australia for at least 45,000–50,000 years.
Assimilationist terms such as 'full-blood,' 'half-caste' and 'quarter-caste' are extremely offensive and should never be used when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
Some common synonyms of indigenous are aboriginal, endemic, and native. While all these words mean "belonging to a locality," indigenous applies to that which is not only native but which, as far as can be determined, has never been introduced or brought from elsewhere.
Australia's First Peoples have been living on the Australian continent for millenia. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia is made up of many different and distinct groups, each with their own culture, customs, language and laws.
Aboriginal Australian identity, sometimes known as Aboriginality, is the perception of oneself as Aboriginal Australian, or the recognition by others of that identity. Aboriginal Australians are one of two Indigenous Australian groups of peoples, the other being Torres Strait Islanders.
Aboriginal people are one of two First Nations groups recognised in what is now known as 'Australia' (the other being Torres Strait Islanders). Aboriginal people belong to Mobs (tribes) and within those are Clans (family groups).
'Aboriginal' means earliest or indigenous. The correct antonym of the given word is option A, 'modern' which means latest or new.
Dual naming is the approach whereby geographical features or places are officially recognised by two distinct names. One name is usually of Aboriginal language origin and the other of non-Aboriginal origin.
You can find Aboriginal Muslims all over the country. Most live in urban areas and attend mosques alongside Muslims from other cultural backgrounds. Some of them are “cultural Muslims.” They identify with the cultural practices and some beliefs found in Islam, but they don't go to the mosque.
Islam first entered Australia through indigenous Aborigines. This took place in a trade relationship between Indonesian Makassar fishermen and Australian Aboriginal tribes around 1650 M. Fishermen from Makassar sailed to the northern coast of Australia in search of 'sea cucumbers'.
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia.
Collectively, the various African Indigenous communities in South Africa are known as the Khoe-San/Khoisan, comprised of the San and the Khoekhoe/Khoi-Khoi. The main San groups include the Khomani San who mainly reside in the Kalahari region, and the Khwe and Xun mainly in Platfontein, Kimberley.