John Highwood Sounds like the nonsense conspiracy theories pushed by Nazis and white supremacists like the Christchurch shooter. Do you care about that?
@Billonaire Riches Yeah except people taking over you doesn't necessarily have to include genocide. Of course people will die in battles and armed confrontations but once one side is victorious it doesn't need to wipe out the other side. Of course cultural genocide and economic loss happens most of the time when a nation conquers another one. But that's preferable in a way than to be completely wiped out. Only place i can think of right now that has conserved their culture perfectly after being colonized is in New Zealand (Maoris) even though they never gained independence. Then you have places like Mexico who lost most of their culture and language and mixed with the colonizers. Or even places like Ireland and Scotland who got the English language and traditions imposed to them. And places like India who conserved their culture but lost millions and millions in terms of economics.
@Billonaire Riches But only western civilizations will try to cheat and sabotage others, instead of competing with them fair and square. Just look are China and the U.S. America is crying foul in everything China does as China is now starting to lead the world in technology and innovations while the US is trying to bring back coal jobs.
@Billonaire Riches Careful with that shit eating attitude... Might bring something unforseen upon yourselves. Guns and firepower aren't the only methods of overpowering. People just need to be inspired. Careful with that inspirational attitude you have there! Nothing more dangerous and completely devastating than an unseen determined enemy...
I’m Aboriginal Australian, I wanted to share that there are HUNDREDS of different Australian Aboriginal languages, but only around 20 are only spoken a lot today- there’s not just one language and tribe. There’s hundreds of different ‘countries’ across Australia with different cultures within themselves. I’m from Kamilaroi, which is a large plains tribe in New South Wales. Nice video, thanks!
I’m not Aboriginal but I’ve lived in Australia my whole life and I’m so glad you pointed this out because I know that there are going to people who watch this video and think this is the sole indigenous language in Australia.
I know this. I am white (Scottish/European) I play Yidaki professionally (but not traditional style) I demonstrate the instrument in British schools and speak of its use a a sacred item. I ALWAYS use tribal names for the instrument and its uses, I also speak of the terrible damage purpetrated by my ancestors and how many tribes there used to be ..it's the least I can do. I ALWAYS mention that there were many many different tribes, not just Yolngu from whose words I quote.
@@aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065 To me cultural appropriation is more like a white American dressing up in pseudo-Native dress as if it was a costume. This man here actually knows the Australian Natives and respectfully introduces their culture to British kids, so they'll be aware of it and think it's important to protect it. Doesn't sound bad to me.
RIP To the millions of human beings who've parishes around the world. Stop with the bs. There's no race, no culture, no ethnicity which hasn't suffered.
@King Alfreds Shieldwall It doesn't matter if they built a couple of buildings it's still not there land and never will be. The Europeans belong in their original homland.
King Alfreds Shieldwall, You have said, 'I'm white British/European. My people built the modern world. ' Sweetie that statement alone simply shows your lack of education... Your credibility, if you actually had any to start with, was blown with that one statement of yours...have a nice day.
2:40 "There is research that says"... followed by not mentioning what research, by whom, when and how it was conducted as some sort of proof for all the statements afterwards.
I feel all native people from all lands look unique. but that may just be because we hardly see any depending where you live. sadly there is so few of them
The BBC didn't even exist when the language was being suppressed so it's an extremely weak argument; "muh British". Whatever country you are from has also committed atrocities culturally and physically
@@bjorlam8201 you missed the key word. BRITISH. it was us british who brought english to australia and now the bbc wants to help save a language that has almost been wiped out by the english language.
@PrimaryHades colonisation hasn’t been kind to any ethnic group or culture throughout history, sadly Aboriginals are became victims of this, but that’s superpowers for you I guess, the brits were conquered for many centuries until they eventually rose up to become the biggest and most powerful Empire the world has seen so far, and in their wake left trails of destruction and death, I hope history doesn’t repeat itself but it’s a bit of a stretch to believe it won’t happen again, anyways I hope everyone can get along better moving into the future
You don't know the truth, that's the problem. This is all propaganda. Aboriginal society now is extremely patriarchal, women have less rights than Muslim women. Forced teenage marriages to 40 year old men, murder, rape. Aboriginal men are lazy, habe zero interest in holding a job. 50,000 years being separated from the rest of us really shows. They are human yes, but less evolved.
@@bradley604 - thanks, but I don't need a seppo telling me my history. If Europeans had never arrived, it wouldn't be called Australia because Australia is a European invention which has only existed since 1901. It's a Latin word after all. Or did you think illiterate isolated hunter-gatherers were fluent in Latin and continent-naming hahahaha
@@danidejaneiro8378 I never said that dummy but what I said is basically the whites living in Australia are not original inhabitants but they are all Europeans who moved on to Australia in the past.
People all african, so called south indians, australians are lived together in leumoria continent. That got sank into sea then the people moved to different parts of world. For example child said tac chi as grandmother. In tamil we called acchi for granny so..
The saddest part is that although there are dozens of endangered languages such as Miriwoong displayed in the video, there are dozens more that have already been lost permanently.
I don't mean any disrespect, but I really don't see any point in trying to, artificially, keep language from changing and evolving. That's simply what happens with language. What is the necessity of keeping THIS specific language around?
@@jesussaves6625 i think whats happening is that theyre struggling to still keep the language alive, its not like they want to stop speaking the language its just becoming irrelevant to modern life and thats why were trying to preserve it
Yes as per hypothesis, there were an big mass of land started from east of Madagascar, stretching till west Australia, from north it started from present day tamilnadu in southern india and big landmass Is called as Lemuria
SSS PANDA EXACTLY! it’s not like the British accent doesn’t give them away! Lol I don’t get how people don’t notice that... they go oh no my accent is not “british” it’s Australian... just because they have a couple of slang words and small variation in a handful of vowels... anyways,thank you for pointing this out!
No, wrong. Many Australians have Irish, German, Greek, Italian, Arab, Chinese or Vietnamese ancenstry. Calling all these people British, when not even their accent sounds British, is just pig ignorant.
If it is Australian and American,they are so quick to defend that the Europeans living there are in fact Australians and Americans but if the person is Asian living in Britain,they are so quick to dehumanized them
@@laki5717 developed a sustainable lifestyle that could have gone on forever without destroying the planet for a start. I’m not here to pick fights man
aboutthetruthmedia organization as a Black person in America who’s lived in the uk just stop. Just because you’re world view gets challenged and theBBC isn’t afraid to call out bigotry and hatred when they see it doesn’t mean they are distorting reality...truth is truth.
@@phoenixj1299 I am a Bengali Indian and we bengali people really believe in this statement that language is identity. It is only something which European race doesn't believe in
@iuvenis animo Completely true. Apparently, King George III wanted to only hold onto the 13 Colonies and leave the rest of the land to the natives. It was the Americans after the revolution that got trigger happy and sucked up as much land as possible. I don't blame them, we the British have done terrible things.
They are biologically closely related to the southern Indian, and the Easter islander. Artefacts found in the island were those of an ancient word similar found in southern India and Sri lanka too that dates back 50000 years or more.
Hello guys. I am a Tamilian - a ancient race from India. After seeing this video, I feel a lot of words are connected to my language Tamil. I hope some research scholar will find the connect.
Yes Even though I am a Telugu guy, I understand Tamil, and I was genuinely shocked to the language the old guy is speaking. Many of the words sound Tamil. And TBH the old man looks a bit Indian too.
Thanks for this. Language is such an important part of who we are. It's so important to how we think and feel. We need to hold on to our heritage to keep our roots intact.
@@michaelbutson9235 চুপ কর, বোকাচোদা। India has more written languages and scripts than you have fingers in your hands combined with the toes of your feet.
I am disgusted by many of the comments on this video. The Australian Aboriginal people are a beautiful people-group - imbued with all of the same dignity and rights you and I take for granted.
I agree. But come to Darwin mate and see that belief be tested everyday. It’s hard to keep faith in them when you see the shit some of them do everyday.
Studying aboard Australia for over one year, I was incredibly enchanted by the traditional culture. Many people out there are passionate, friendly and loquacious. I'm from China. Nonetheless, I was impressed by many people living in Australia as they have never taken me as strangers. That people truely appreciated all forms of nations in the world is respectable.
Up to 30% of Australia's population are immigrants, the highest of any nation with more than 1 million people. I like to think our diverse history makes us an especially tolerant people. I'm glad you enjoyed my country, and the culture of the traditional custodians of our land.
There were over 250 languages spoken by Aboriginies before it was colonised, all Aboriginies were nomadic and didn't have civilisation therefore because they were restricted to smaller tribes there was not one official language really that prevailed throughout. I guess this language would have been the most spoken out of all of them though. It's good to keep the languages going though.
i grew up on Miriwoong country from 18yrs old, Learnt some words and phrases. i left there forty yrsago and never would have thought that language would be dying out, as there was such a strong presence of people speaking that lingo then.
Exactly like our Irulas and Kurubas and all. I ve been to Uluru to see and understand that world a little. And believe me, some of the aspects of their culture are very similar to Irula, Kuruba, Toda and all, in Tamil Nadu.
This is awesome! I'm Welsh and sometimes in the history of our language, it has been a problem if someone spoke it (in schools at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, if a child spoke Welsh, they had to wear a 'Welsh not' around their necks all day, as a punishment). Hope this language is revived fully and many thousands of people speak it, to keep it alive!
Aboriginals should remember thei langua, also english dominance should stop so vi need not use their langua in international things, ther should be a constryucted langua for that, so enlish should learn it too and everyone keeps their own langua in their own land.
Really most of the people think that UK has only English as a language... When people here in India hears about UK they don't know that it comprises of Welsh and Scotland.... We mostly think that UK is homogenous in ethnicity....
One side of a multifaceted story. English was itself suppressed and driven underground by French for hundreds of years, in England. That it survived is because it's so adaptable, a mongrel where everyone has a home if they want. English is fluid and friendly, many dialects, accents, pidgins and creoles. But it didn't have an easy start. You were not even a second class citizen in England when the French took over and imposed their ways upon the land and its language. Olde English was beautiful and we lost many words, phrases and sayings in the transition to a Latin base.
English is going to kill all Indian languages.. unfortunately, Indians ignore this fact and fight among themselves saying Hindi is being imposed.. Telugu is being imposed.. Tamil.. etc...English and christianity is going to hijack tamil language and its culture
They are the same, southern India first migrates to Indonesia when the land is connected due to the Ice age, Those people later Migrate to New Guinea and Australia, while the Indonesian got mixed by Asian people from Vietnam and Austronesian from Taiwan, the Aboriginals and most Papua people leave untouched, so they are technically still the same race as Southern India.
@@fakuri913 no India and Australia we’re connected to kumari kandam a continent so people are same but after ice age continent submerged land split and India joined north land to form Himalayas and Australia moved further east
Mate i know that tamil is not the only south Indian language malayalam kannada telugu are also south Indian languages, I was talking about your comment saying " as a tamilan I fell they are related to us" tamilans are not the only dravidians out there
@@shhhhh6873 they may have derived from tamil but they are separate languages apart from malayalam none of the other dravidian languages even sound like tamil
I really like what that guy said about how if you have an identity it makes you stronger and you are less likely to feel like you need to commit a crime because you already feel like you truly possess something
Tapan Sharma yah those ancient tribes of India are very genetically similar to those native to Australia, these people groups were some of the first to leave Africa, it's amazing that some still live on today , yet sadly these indigenous populations are growing smaller. If you're interested the UA-cam channel Masaman does great videos on the topic. Peace
1:05 Here European Colonist means only Britain. As no other European came to Australia except British. So accept your forefathers mistake British Broadcasting Channel (BBC)
@@acetate909 "Forgotten"? I personally believe it is infinitely wise of them to cherish and uphold their heritage, no matter how little of it remains still. Wise people.
@@acetate909 we answered this question at school . Every language has its own character and it's own opinion about the world . Every language is like a living organism that has different opinions and ways of thinking . By losing one language you lose the variety of opinions that express different opinions about our world and society
@@acetate909 They value their wonderful heritage and culture. That will always be infinitely wise, in my humble view. Don't know why that bothers you so much. I simply will not sway from this view. Good day.
In this video, at 0.09 the word tai chi is actually thai achi or achi which is pure tamil that means grandma Thai means mother achi means mothers mother in tamil
In my native language; Ohafia of Igbo Langugage, motorbike is named according to the sound it makes, “Ekpepkere”. Many are testifying the same here and that shows how similar the human minds work.
When that man described "everything that moves is language, has language and cannot be described in words" is the same feeling shared by Tamil community on tamil language.
Thank you from outback south australia ... need more of this as many aussies are stuck in big cities and have not been exposed to true Australian culture and spirit. Also our pride for the world to see
No, it is more in common with language of Andamanese tribals. Generically too the Australian native people are connected to Andamanese. Tamils have W. Asian ancestry genetically.
Nearly 11% of the Aboriginals have Dravidian or Tamil lineage in them. The Australian dingoes fossils never date back beyond 2217BC, the closest living relatives r the Indian Pariahs
Mate I was thinking the exact same thing! The guy David in the video looked very Tamil or like a distant Tamil cousin or ancestor, I was quite surprised, and when I saw your video I knew that it was not just me thought this. How crazy is this huh?
@yolo onlyonce no my friend, its not about who cares but rather about how even though we all might be different culturally and ethnically, but still we all have something common in our lives with which we can connect our history with. In the end of the day we're all just human beings in this earth going about our own lives. :) cheers mate. And like your username suggests, you only live once, why live it with hate?
I love when he said everything has language,they were the true ecologist who not even understand the nature but they submerged themselves into the nature
European colonisation in Australia AKA British colonisation. I wonder how much would it worth if they try to quantify the reparation for the damage done to the Indegenous souls. God Bless
S RK. Right! They love to hind behind various groups, organizations, nations, countries, etc.. that’s the whole point of creating the UN and the EU and all of the various flags and languages and names, etc... when the reality is that all roads lead to ROME!
Same group people that distance themselves from past horrors and injustices are always the same lot that also vehemently opposes them being set right. Go figure!
@hater gater and who are you to proclaim the same? Some Nobel prize winning scientist specialising in Human neuro psyche? Come on! You know the disaster that colonisation brought to the world. Indegenous people across the world are the only group of human race that has always been in harmony with the nature around them since time immemorial. They were happy with whatever they had back then and so are now. They never had the urge for more but to be satisfied with whatever they had. They didn't run behind the materialistic satisfaction that we do now. And for the colonizer's quest of filling in the treasures and the neverending hunt for want, the easiest prey were none other than them. Accept it. I still can't believe people can have such low thoughtprocess to categorise a certain group of people to such demeaning position.
I have nothing but full respect to the Miriwoong people I love the pride they have that runs in the community. It’s difficult when languages disappear over time because as myself who is an Assyrian from the Middle East our Language is Ancient Assyrian-Neo-Aramaic, our tribe still teach the mother tongue that’s gone on for thousands of years for the next generation as old as it is. I totally agree with the part when its mentioned that being able to speak the Miriwoong language allows you to open a world of opportunities - all in all you never forget where you come from and where you stand as a person, it’s best to embrace who your people are.
Ideally but they are struggling to survive as a culture. It's good that there is more work and effort going into cultural preservation but is it too late?
@@Zetunez please do NOT call them 'noble savages'! That is deeply inappropriate. They are not savages of any kind but they have endured centuries of extreme abuses from being labelled that way.
@The505Guys whose line is that? It's certainly not an anthropological one that cultural replacement is a good thing. Cultural extinction is a bad thing: very much to be prevented by all means possible. This is because humans encode vast levels of knowledge, cultural memories, landscape expertise, important technologies in their cultures. UNESCO, the anthropology field, archaeologists all take cultural extinctions extremely seriously as a threat.
My great grandmother spoke Scottish Gaelic as her main language. She would have been born in the highlands around 1860-70. You really have to make an effort at a government level I think as I'm an example of a family that will have spoken the same language for thousands of years and it went from my great-grandmother speaking it as her first language to my granddad speaking as his second language to my dad not speaking a word of it. A total loss of culture and language in two generations.
Genetically speaking Australian aboriginals belong to the paternal DNA Haplogroup C Haplogroup C is highest in modern day Mongolians and Siberians, lowest in Africans and Middle Easterners.
@@ted1990 the situation that made indigenous people to "learn" their native tongue under an institutional set up (school) suggests the way the external influence (colonization) has exerted it's power and authority over their lives.
I think tamil and aboriginal are related I am from northeast India(Manipur) but I used to study in south India(hyderabad) We had teacher and student(who were my friends) from tamil nadu I strongly belive their is relation between tamil and aboriginal
Abilash v. Please read about the lost continent Lemuria (Kumarikandam in Tamil). It is believed to be the cradle of civilisation. It was present in southern India extending from Madagascar in the west to Australia in the east. Scripts about this continent is mentioned in Tamil literatures which are scientifically dated 3000 to 5000 years back from now. Even recently they found more than 3 lakh years old stone tools near Chennai. You could search online for neanderthal tools near Chennai. There are always hard truths in this world which will not be spread due to the impact or changes it makes to history, ex: oldest religion practised was worship of God Shiva.
Why do people ACTUALLY care about keeping a dozen or so people speaking an old isolated and useless language in the most diverse place of language on the planet? Britain used to have hundreds of languages, only about 6 are left and now everyone can communicate openly with eachother and actually develop and improve their lives instead of speaking an old tongue limited to an old impoverished village. If you actually care about a dying language, learn it yourself instead of saying others should. Make it your own crippling and practically useless task.
@@AsianTheDomination At least Latin has some purpose, I mean hell it technically never truly died since we use it in literature, law, medicine, science and so on. But to make a literal toolshed speaker population language be forced or pitied to be learned by the majority is a waste of time unless the language brings actually some advantage over others.
@@culturedvulture2015 yep. But that grandpa looked like someone who has both tamil and Kerala features. Those grannies one the other had features of both Tamil and African
She said Gayi gayi means Grandma. Reminds of isiZulu, where Gogo means Grandma. Even that uncle's word for car is similar to another Southern African tribe called the Tswana and they call a car " koloyi ".
I'm from South side of India,i think after few years different languages of Southern part of India will be disappeared by imposition of English language on our kids by school teacher and parents
English is going to kill all Indian languages.. unfortunately, Indians ignore this fact and fight among themselves saying Hindi is being imposed.. Telugu is being imposed.. Tamil.. etc...
They dont speak hindi... but south Indians are the multilingual people in India..they can speak atleast 3 to 5 languages.. they learn what is necessary. .that's exactly why they are the most wanted by multinational organizations to lead their worldwide operations...
@@PHlophe the average Australian Aboriginal has looks which resemble many southern Indians. The people you talk about - Kanaks - are Melanesian. The only people in Australia who resemble them are Torres strait islanders who aren't aboriginal Australians (but included as indigenous Australians)
Amazing ancient people. This is very cool to me. Those aboriginal people look like they are from a past time. They look so unique. I think they are special and carry a unique bloodline that is not found anywhere else. I would love to meet one of them one day and talk to them.
@@meheretoday6968 They are descended from Dravidians. They have DNA from India. The closest people they resemble are south Indians. They migrated from Asia. They didn't spring up out of the ground.
John let me clarify what I said...the aboriginal people of Australia are diverse. Some have ancestors coming from one area of the world and another may have ancestors coming from another part of the world... You can claim what ever you choose to claim on behalf of every aboriginal Australian but mate you would be stretching to claim they originated in one place... but keep telling yourself you are correct if you choose...PS: I am of aboriginal descent and do not have any southern Indian DNA but am able to track the route my ancestors took to get here... but as I said please by all means now tell me I am mistaken ....
Well their linguistic terms had some similarity with Tamil. Gagayi is grandma in their language Aayi is grandma in Tamil. Well a few tribea seem to have distant similarities with South indians. But rest are completely different.
@@abhisekpatnala I'm a Tamil Myself yeah that does sound similar in phoenetics nothing to brag about here n all but looks wise too thr around 15% similarity. Heard somewhere that 1 of the aboringial groups in australia had some connection of DNA with that of south indians. Anyways all humans are migrants & thats just fine.
I guess anything’s possible. Aboriginals believe in destiny and that Australia is their motherland (see out of Australia theory). There’s evidence of their DNA spread out all over the world.
Cultural Darwinism is real. No one has more responsibility to keep the ancestral culture and language alive than the descendants. The descendants will only do this if there’s clear incentive to do so. Good will alone will not prevent the death of languages. My best wishes for all indigenous cultures around the world.
@Lana Joy That's a disgusting thing to say. How do you know they wouldn't have "evolved" had Australia not been colonised? It sounds to me like you're making assumptions.
Sadly my nans language (her mob is from northern territory) has been forgotten as the last speaker died in 2009 and she was stolen at a young age. Glad to see there keeping the language alive!
@Jay Jay My nan was stolen and only recently been understanding more about where I come from, my mum isn't Aboriginal either. My Father grew up mostly isolated from anything Aboriginal aside some community and relatives.
It's good to bring the indigenous language come back to live. I think it is extra hard for English speaking countries to conserve local languages because English is an international language and people tend to just learn English alone. I think it's also the same case happening in the mainland Great Britain where local languages there are being left by young generations and replaced with English.
Not only language...but also widped out most of the indigenous people
Yeah European wiped out a lot of indigenous people around the world a take their land's
@@johnhighwood7261 karma m8
@@johnhighwood7261 africans country occupated by british. Now africans take thier right from europeans
John Highwood
Sounds like the nonsense conspiracy theories pushed by Nazis and white supremacists like the Christchurch shooter. Do you care about that?
@@AAA-ft8gs So why are they moving to Western Countries?
It's terrifying how quickly ones land can be ethnically cleansed.
@Billonaire Riches
Yeah except people taking over you doesn't necessarily have to include genocide.
Of course people will die in battles and armed confrontations but once one side is victorious it doesn't need to wipe out the other side.
Of course cultural genocide and economic loss happens most of the time when a nation conquers another one. But that's preferable in a way than to be completely wiped out.
Only place i can think of right now that has conserved their culture perfectly after being colonized is in New Zealand (Maoris) even though they never gained independence.
Then you have places like Mexico who lost most of their culture and language and mixed with the colonizers.
Or even places like Ireland and Scotland who got the English language and traditions imposed to them.
And places like India who conserved their culture but lost millions and millions in terms of economics.
@Billonaire Riches But only western civilizations will try to cheat and sabotage others, instead of competing with them fair and square. Just look are China and the U.S. America is crying foul in everything China does as China is now starting to lead the world in technology and innovations while the US is trying to bring back coal jobs.
@Billonaire Riches Careful with that shit eating attitude... Might bring something unforseen upon yourselves. Guns and firepower aren't the only methods of overpowering. People just need to be inspired. Careful with that inspirational attitude you have there! Nothing more dangerous and completely devastating than an unseen determined enemy...
@Billonaire Riches Reading comprehension. Give it another bash. Read what I said slowly.
@Good Average it was legal to hunt them as sport until 1978 you absolute belter
I’m Aboriginal Australian, I wanted to share that there are HUNDREDS of different Australian Aboriginal languages, but only around 20 are only spoken a lot today- there’s not just one language and tribe. There’s hundreds of different ‘countries’ across Australia with different cultures within themselves. I’m from Kamilaroi, which is a large plains tribe in New South Wales.
Nice video, thanks!
I’m not Aboriginal but I’ve lived in Australia my whole life and I’m so glad you pointed this out because I know that there are going to people who watch this video and think this is the sole indigenous language in Australia.
@@elenirose4945 yup that’s what I was thinking 😅
I know this. I am white (Scottish/European) I play Yidaki professionally (but not traditional style) I demonstrate the instrument in British schools and speak of its use a a sacred item.
I ALWAYS use tribal names for the instrument and its uses, I also speak of the terrible damage purpetrated by my ancestors and how many tribes there used to be ..it's the least I can do.
I ALWAYS mention that there were many many different tribes, not just Yolngu from whose words I quote.
@@BaddaBigBoom Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.
@@aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065 To me cultural appropriation is more like a white American dressing up in pseudo-Native dress as if it was a costume. This man here actually knows the Australian Natives and respectfully introduces their culture to British kids, so they'll be aware of it and think it's important to protect it. Doesn't sound bad to me.
There's approximately 6,500 languages in the world. The fact that people have learned how to communicate in so many different ways is amazing.
Australia was once home to 250 different languages. It was as linguistically diverse as Europe is, if not more
@@JamesBond-rb1lnaccording to many sources there were 300+ languages in Australia only few dozen are preserved today Europeans destroyed everything 💔
America had more native tribes
RIP all the millions of natives who have perished everywhere around the world
Yes the their sufferings are heartbraking
It doesn't surprise me anymore that Homosapiens is the only Human sub-species left on Earth.
@shreyan kanvinde Kya Hal hei? Ha, yeh such hei☹️
RIP To the millions of human beings who've parishes around the world. Stop with the bs. There's no race, no culture, no ethnicity which hasn't suffered.
deez nuts
Don't say european. Everybody know its you britain
@@truth803 France??????
dutch too
@@truth803 no French, british, scottih, irish, danish, and netherland like in South Africa
Marlène Y why include the Scottish separately from the British?
alot of butthurt redcoats
The real australians..
king lehar Get ready for the comments.
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@King Alfreds Shieldwall It doesn't matter if they built a couple of buildings it's still not there land and never will be. The Europeans belong in their original homland.
@Phoenix Swooping Well tough luck now you know how the native Australians feel.
King Alfreds Shieldwall, You have said, 'I'm white British/European. My people built the modern world. ' Sweetie that statement alone simply shows your lack of education... Your credibility, if you actually had any to start with, was blown with that one statement of yours...have a nice day.
2:40 "There is research that says"... followed by not mentioning what research, by whom, when and how it was conducted as some sort of proof for all the statements afterwards.
My thoughts exactly. I mean, the “language gives identity” part makes sense, but that isn’t research 😂
...It's a brief TV interview, not a dissertation.
aboriginals look so different from all the other human races. It's super interesting.
I feel all native people from all lands look unique. but that may just be because we hardly see any depending where you live.
sadly there is so few of them
@@franklinQR they all look like jesus
Aborginal skulls also look quite different from European, Asian and African peoples skulls. Look it up on google, its quite interesting
Was gonna say this probably why they were so treated so bad
@@franklinQR look at your racism oozing out from you like some rotten pus. Disgusting
The natives in Australia look like an interesting mix of Indians, Africans and Native Americans. Truly magnificent.
They are Austroloids.
yes because its a hot climate.... the skin adapts to be darker to stop sunburn
@Khushi Bidhuri south maybe
I don't see the American in them to be honest. Just the Indian and african.
@Khushi Bidhuri north and south indians are same
Ironic how the BRITISH broadcasting company is now the trying to save the language 😂
The BBC didn't even exist when the language was being suppressed so it's an extremely weak argument; "muh British". Whatever country you are from has also committed atrocities culturally and physically
Bjorlam I’m British u idiot 😂
@@bjorlam8201 you missed the key word. BRITISH. it was us british who brought english to australia and now the bbc wants to help save a language that has almost been wiped out by the english language.
I'm sorry but if the language dies it won't end the world will it.
@@swishyswampy489 well if islam takes over, the world wont end will it? but we don't want islam to take over do we?
Aboriginals look like a lost race of human beings, they are very interesting, extremely strong and adaptable, incredible people. Hugs from Brazil.
@PrimaryHades colonisation hasn’t been kind to any ethnic group or culture throughout history, sadly Aboriginals are became victims of this, but that’s superpowers for you I guess, the brits were conquered for many centuries until they eventually rose up to become the biggest and most powerful Empire the world has seen so far, and in their wake left trails of destruction and death, I hope history doesn’t repeat itself but it’s a bit of a stretch to believe it won’t happen again, anyways I hope everyone can get along better moving into the future
@PrimaryHades ,they haven't been kind to themselves.
Yes they very interesting and their simplicity is awesome. Hugs from India also.
You don't know the truth, that's the problem. This is all propaganda. Aboriginal society now is extremely patriarchal, women have less rights than Muslim women. Forced teenage marriages to 40 year old men, murder, rape. Aboriginal men are lazy, habe zero interest in holding a job.
50,000 years being separated from the rest of us really shows. They are human yes, but less evolved.
they are definitely another species.
Real Australians.............💯💯💯
Arunkumar R - not really. Australia as a a country was a white invention. It's a Latin word after all
@@danidejaneiro8378 those are real Australians.
@@bradley604 - not really. Australia as a country was a white invention. It's a Latin word after all.
@@bradley604 - thanks, but I don't need a seppo telling me my history. If Europeans had never arrived, it wouldn't be called Australia because Australia is a European invention which has only existed since 1901. It's a Latin word after all. Or did you think illiterate isolated hunter-gatherers were fluent in Latin and continent-naming hahahaha
@@danidejaneiro8378 I never said that dummy but what I said is basically the whites living in Australia are not original inhabitants but they are all Europeans who moved on to Australia in the past.
I am a Tamil guy. For some reason I feel an unavoidable connection with these people. Love from India 💗
Happy diwali
@Vain V why don’t we share, it’s both of our homes now? What’s done is done, but we’ve made our own culture together, blacks and whites alike
watch this BBC documentary. You have your answers from 41:01 to 52:10 in this!!!! ua-cam.com/video/W_xTG6VXlIQ/v-deo.html
People all african, so called south indians, australians are lived together in leumoria continent. That got sank into sea then the people moved to different parts of world. For example child said tac chi as grandmother. In tamil we called acchi for granny so..
தமிழர்கள்
The saddest part is that although there are dozens of endangered languages such as Miriwoong displayed in the video, there are dozens more that have already been lost permanently.
Good, they’re useless lol
There is around 300 native australian language so it’s gonna be hard to preserve all of them.
I don't mean any disrespect, but I really don't see any point in trying to, artificially, keep language from changing and evolving. That's simply what happens with language. What is the necessity of keeping THIS specific language around?
@@jesussaves6625 i think whats happening is that theyre struggling to still keep the language alive, its not like they want to stop speaking the language its just becoming irrelevant to modern life and thats why were trying to preserve it
as sad as it is that we lost all the languages of cro magnon and neanderthals
They look very similar to the indigenous peoples of South India.
DNA may agree.
That’s because the people migrated from South India to South East Asia to Australia. So they look close to each other
Yes as per hypothesis, there were an big mass of land started from east of Madagascar, stretching till west Australia, from north it started from present day tamilnadu in southern india and big landmass Is called as Lemuria
They are the real Australians the Australians today are British
SSS PANDA EXACTLY! it’s not like the British accent doesn’t give them away! Lol I don’t get how people don’t notice that... they go oh no my accent is not “british” it’s Australian... just because they have a couple of slang words and small variation in a handful of vowels... anyways,thank you for pointing this out!
No, wrong. Many Australians have Irish, German, Greek, Italian, Arab, Chinese or Vietnamese ancenstry. Calling all these people British, when not even their accent sounds British, is just pig ignorant.
If it is Australian and American,they are so quick to defend that the Europeans living there are in fact Australians and Americans but if the person is Asian living in Britain,they are so quick to dehumanized them
Oh I thought nationality did not equal race? Besides, there was no concept of Australia before Europeans arrived.
@@Miquelalalaa Europeans arrived and exploited Australia just like they did to my country india
As an Aboriginal Australian, it’s nice to see *some* kind comments ❤️💛🖤 thank you
how did your people exist in Australia for 50,000 years and never develop anything?
@@laki5717 developed a sustainable lifestyle that could have gone on forever without destroying the planet for a start. I’m not here to pick fights man
@@laki5717 what about a boomerang??
@@teleportedfunk lmaooo
@@lucymasters4910 thus morning i ask my dad why aboriginals never develop anything. he said ' because of their lifestyle, there is no need to'
Sometimes BBC comes back to their senses.. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
My girlfriend didn’t come back to her senses after she tried bbc:((
aboutthetruthmedia organization as a Black person in America who’s lived in the uk just stop. Just because you’re world view gets challenged and theBBC isn’t afraid to call out bigotry and hatred when they see it doesn’t mean they are distorting reality...truth is truth.
Bye now I’m going back out because I have a life and friends and I’m not a racist idiot like you
When you result to insults, the argument loses.
So much nope
I think children should be taught Arabic numerals.
"language is identity",,,man that's such a powerful sentence!
Not really. If that's the case then there are 30 plus identities in India itself.
@@phoenixj1299 I am a Bengali Indian and we bengali people really believe in this statement that language is identity. It is only something which European race doesn't believe in
@phoenixj1299 Not true those are descendant of Sanskrit /Tamil. And uses variation of Brahmi Script(Panini)
British invaded US. Cleansed the nstives
British invaded AU. Cleansed the nstive
@iuvenis animo i d not even reply just a dumb commie
Don’t forget Canada 😂
Also, don't forget - because of the British, you can sit at a keyboard on a comfortable chair, instead of sitting on a mud floor eating bugs.
@iuvenis animo Completely true. Apparently, King George III wanted to only hold onto the 13 Colonies and leave the rest of the land to the natives. It was the Americans after the revolution that got trigger happy and sucked up as much land as possible. I don't blame them, we the British have done terrible things.
@@Master13346 umm i dont think the UK invented computers
Wow indigenous Aussies looks like something mixed between Indian and African.
that guy tho looked like the lorax
@@jimmea6317 lmaoooo 💀
They are biologically closely related to the southern Indian, and the Easter islander. Artefacts found in the island were those of an ancient word similar found in southern India and Sri lanka too that dates back 50000 years or more.
@Jay Jay Who was it then?
They look like people from Eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Hello guys. I am a Tamilian - a ancient race from India. After seeing this video, I feel a lot of words are connected to my language Tamil. I hope some research scholar will find the connect.
My son looked this up and found there is a CONNECTION...
Unmaidhan nanba
There might already be videos about that on UA-cam. I follow a channel called NativLang and it has taught me about how some languages are connected.
For example?
Yes
Even though I am a Telugu guy, I understand Tamil, and I was genuinely shocked to the language the old guy is speaking. Many of the words sound Tamil. And TBH the old man looks a bit Indian too.
Thanks for this. Language is such an important part of who we are. It's so important to how we think and feel. We need to hold on to our heritage to keep our roots intact.
BBC: "European colonisation wiped out many languages here."
THAT'S WHAT A BRITISH COMPANY WOULD SAY
@Vain V That's factually false, so why would you say something so incredibly stupid?
@Vain V 🤡
@Vain V 🤡🤡🤡 I'm trying to decide if you're funny or sad, but we'll stop here. You can go bait reactions from someone else now 🤡🤡🤡
BBC and universities stopped using the word pioneer and replaced it with coloniser.
@@ionidhunedoara1491 pioneering what? Genocide, the practice of destroying cultures and languages, and erasing history?
Shut the fuck up dumbass
3:05 Language means identity, well said. Most people in India don't realise that, end up imposing the majoritarian language on others.
Yet they don't have a written language. ..why
@@michaelbutson9235 চুপ কর, বোকাচোদা। India has more written languages and scripts than you have fingers in your hands combined with the toes of your feet.
@@Mrityormokshiya thankyou for that info but we must have our lines crossed some were becuse we were talking about Australia abarigerails. .
jaihind NatrajN yes i hate hindi ill never speak it
Everyone has right to speak and preserve there language .
It's heart-warming to see those beautiful children learn their mother language from their beautiful elders. Remember who u are . . .You are greatness
What greatness? Aboriginals have been there for thousands of years and invented nothing.
@@jimmydong8708 ok and
That blonde hair blue eyed white girl isn’t aboriginal, maybe like 2% lol
@@meep3035 aha bro 🤣 my brother is white and both of our parents are black we come in all colours 😆🤦♂️
TheKunsProject lol that girl is not aboriginal lmfao cope more, her dna test would at most say 5%
I am tamil
And their faces are so relatable to us
Omg 😳
Dravidians are the descendants of native Australians.
Gondgwana desendance
Even i too shocked looking at them. They are looking like my relatives. Only thing they are speaking in English.
S,true, they look like my grandparents.
I am disgusted by many of the comments on this video. The Australian Aboriginal people are a beautiful people-group - imbued with all of the same dignity and rights you and I take for granted.
I agree. But come to Darwin mate and see that belief be tested everyday. It’s hard to keep faith in them when you see the shit some of them do everyday.
@@sebastianlodge7549 that's a very short term view of long term oppression.
@chocobonita they don’t even look the same wtf
@chocobonita Aborigines and Africans look completely different
@chocobonita Oh alright. Sorry, I didnt read the second thing you said in response to someone else.
Studying aboard Australia for over one year, I was incredibly enchanted by the traditional culture. Many people out there are passionate, friendly and loquacious. I'm from China. Nonetheless, I was impressed by many people living in Australia as they have never taken me as strangers. That people truely appreciated all forms of nations in the world is respectable.
What were you studying? Australian? What is Australian?
@@betelgezaa I'm an overseas student from China.
@@vincentlui1456 then you study English .....Australian language is the language of aboriginals !
Up to 30% of Australia's population are immigrants, the highest of any nation with more than 1 million people. I like to think our diverse history makes us an especially tolerant people. I'm glad you enjoyed my country, and the culture of the traditional custodians of our land.
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor since when Australians are tolerant ? What about atrocities against aboriginals?
alternate title: the language australians spoke before being colonised by britain
true !
@karonic ゝ so your argument for defending colonisation is "they did it too so we did it".
one word : childish.
i love this title
There were over 250 languages spoken by Aboriginies before it was colonised, all Aboriginies were nomadic and didn't have civilisation therefore because they were restricted to smaller tribes there was not one official language really that prevailed throughout. I guess this language would have been the most spoken out of all of them though. It's good to keep the languages going though.
@karonic ゝ by common you mean britain and france colonising 2/3rds of the world?
i grew up on Miriwoong country from 18yrs old,
Learnt some words and phrases.
i left there forty yrsago and never would have thought that language would be dying out, as there was such a strong presence of people speaking that lingo then.
This man is looks like Tamil man
Yes
Actually tamil and the orginal Australian are related
Yes like irula tribes in Tamil Nadu -Kerala border.
Exactly like our Irulas and Kurubas and all. I ve been to Uluru to see and understand that world a little. And believe me, some of the aspects of their culture are very similar to Irula, Kuruba, Toda and all, in Tamil Nadu.
It is believed that Australian aboriginals are our true ancestors.
Aboriginals look incredibly different than all human races.. intresting..
They look people from the Southern Part of India
@@santoshjudedsouza yeah i think it goes back to when australia was connected to india and they've been isolated since.
The phonetics is somewhat similar to Tamil(South Indian Language)
santoshjudedsouza No they don’t, not Kerala more Tamil nadu
I wonder how a mixed aboriginals look, it looks like a nice mix. Exotic
This is awesome! I'm Welsh and sometimes in the history of our language, it has been a problem if someone spoke it (in schools at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, if a child spoke Welsh, they had to wear a 'Welsh not' around their necks all day, as a punishment). Hope this language is revived fully and many thousands of people speak it, to keep it alive!
Aboriginals should remember thei langua, also english dominance should stop so vi need not use their langua in international things, ther should be a constryucted langua for that, so enlish should learn it too and everyone keeps their own langua in their own land.
Better be glad that people can actually understand this comment then because it isn't in Welsh.
Really most of the people think that UK has only English as a language...
When people here in India hears about UK they don't know that it comprises of Welsh and Scotland....
We mostly think that UK is homogenous in ethnicity....
Need some welsh music on the radio singing in welsh
One side of a multifaceted story. English was itself suppressed and driven underground by French for hundreds of years, in England. That it survived is because it's so adaptable, a mongrel where everyone has a home if they want. English is fluid and friendly, many dialects, accents, pidgins and creoles. But it didn't have an easy start. You were not even a second class citizen in England when the French took over and imposed their ways upon the land and its language.
Olde English was beautiful and we lost many words, phrases and sayings in the transition to a Latin base.
Barely any of the actual language is included in this video but you can find a little at 1:21
They look alike Tamil people.
English is going to kill all Indian languages.. unfortunately, Indians ignore this fact and fight among themselves saying Hindi is being imposed.. Telugu is being imposed.. Tamil.. etc...English and christianity is going to hijack tamil language and its culture
They are the same, southern India first migrates to Indonesia when the land is connected due to the Ice age, Those people later Migrate to New Guinea and Australia, while the Indonesian got mixed by Asian people from Vietnam and Austronesian from Taiwan, the Aboriginals and most Papua people leave untouched, so they are technically still the same race as Southern India.
@@ravinunna1168
First stop imposing Hindi !
Don’t worry about Tamil ! It will survive !
@@fakuri913 no India and Australia we’re connected to kumari kandam a continent so people are same but after ice age continent submerged land split and India joined north land to form Himalayas and Australia moved further east
@@vinushadoss4124 Lmao no, that's million years ago before human even exist
As a tamilan I feel they are related to us🤔❤️
Is tamil the only south indian lanaguage?
@@eldhosesaji2327 no
Mate i know that tamil is not the only south Indian language malayalam kannada telugu are also south Indian languages, I was talking about your comment saying " as a tamilan I fell they are related to us" tamilans are not the only dravidians out there
@@eldhosesaji2327 n many dravidan languages are derived from tamil.. N tamil is oldest of all other southindian languages
@@shhhhh6873 they may have derived from tamil but they are separate languages apart from malayalam none of the other dravidian languages even sound like tamil
I really like what that guy said about how if you have an identity it makes you stronger and you are less likely to feel like you need to commit a crime because you already feel like you truly possess something
they speak language up the north west and aboriginal crime is out of control - next theory
@@jimlofts5433 its like hood culture in america. if they cant get opportunities for a life thats good they aint gonna live a good life.
My country of Papua New Guinea has over 800 native languages. We are facing the same problems. I hope they will still be spoken in 50 years.
The death of native languages inevitably results in generations of misfits.
No wonder the US has been struggling with itself since decades now. Even the emotional capacity of a person suffers i guess
Because of the pain and hurt that comes with it. The loss of something that was once loved and cherished
what a shit excuse lmao
In India we have tribes who have similar facial features like the man in thumbnail in a state called Chattisgarh..
Tapan Sharma yah those ancient tribes of India are very genetically similar to those native to Australia, these people groups were some of the first to leave Africa, it's amazing that some still live on today , yet sadly these indigenous populations are growing smaller. If you're interested the UA-cam channel Masaman does great videos on the topic. Peace
@@connlaffan6232 they are Austroloid
Even Tamils look like him.
@@connlaffan6232 Yup. The aborigines are directly related to the first humans to leave Africa.
Rooster
All people directly related, to Africa. Australians are genetically distant to Africa
1:05 Here European Colonist means only Britain. As no other European came to Australia except British. So accept your forefathers mistake British Broadcasting Channel (BBC)
They are unique, what a bless.
bring back forgotten Languages!
I love your spirit and attitude. Wise. 👍
@@acetate909 They are still speaking their languages and it looks like they aren't ever going to stop. Wise of them.
@@acetate909 "Forgotten"? I personally believe it is infinitely wise of them to cherish and uphold their heritage, no matter how little of it remains still. Wise people.
@@acetate909 we answered this question at school . Every language has its own character and it's own opinion about the world . Every language is like a living organism that has different opinions and ways of thinking . By losing one language you lose the variety of opinions that express different opinions about our world and society
@@acetate909 They value their wonderful heritage and culture. That will always be infinitely wise, in my humble view. Don't know why that bothers you so much. I simply will not sway from this view. Good day.
Did that grandma have a beard and mustache.
hahaha
That's what I wanna know
Handsome_Hero yes brother
some random geek yes bro
It's a dude with a soft voice
This language is similar to Tamil south Indian language
I am also a tamil guy but I don't find it similar to our language.
Name tamil la irrundaa yellam thiriumm
@@aravindhasamy7357 sathiyama enaku endha vaarthayum tamil vartha mathri therla nenga edha vachi solringa
@@prithiviraj3070 yavarum use panierrupangaa bro
@@aravindhasamy7357 tamil eh varadhu pola ungaluku XD
In this video, at 0.09 the word tai chi is actually thai achi or achi which is pure tamil that means grandma
Thai means mother achi means mothers mother in tamil
People look like Tamil. The language also sounds similar to Tamil. ❤️
Gagayi (Aayi in tamil means grandma) 😀
@@02abishekprasad91 also in balochi
@@6ix9inetechashy oh really?
@@02abishekprasad91 well its more like mom but we can also call grandmother as aayi
@@6ix9inetechashy oh nice brahui is connected to tamil tho but it's interesting to see balochi and yeah we can call mom aayi too
0:06 *Gay guy means grandma.* You heard it here first, folks
lol
Hehe
Hey look at my gay guy
XD XD stop
No you!!
The man looks so much like a South indian
Fun fact dravidians and aboriginals closely related.
Looks so much like a Tamil
Genetically they’re similar to adivasis.
The sounds in their language also kinda sounds like ours(Tamil)
I know many North Indians that look similar to him.
In my native language; Ohafia of Igbo Langugage, motorbike is named according to the sound it makes, “Ekpepkere”. Many are testifying the same here and that shows how similar the human minds work.
I felt a strong connection to Tamil both in the language and in the appearances...
"European colonisation wiped out ..." - Oh now it's European, and not British? Interesting.
It wasn't just British settlers. For example, plenty of Germans came to Australia.
Marc it was mostly north and Western Europe. I haven’t heard of Greeks or Eastern Europeans besides Russians who colonized
the pioneers of colonisation have always been the British... they are also masters of ethnic cleansing...
@Jay Jay Britain has always been the undisputed champion... pinoneers in those particular fields... others were just wannabes
@Jay Jay can't get more accurate than that
When that man described "everything that moves is language, has language and cannot be described in words" is the same feeling shared by Tamil community on tamil language.
lol
you are right. I felt the same way.
@@TheSmith645 nee ennatha pudingitanu solra.. Tharperumaiku artham therinchitu vada tharkuri..
@@preetamyadav7952 bihari
@@satanshameer690 I am haryanvi
Thank you from outback south australia ... need more of this as many aussies are stuck in big cities and have not been exposed to true Australian culture and spirit. Also our pride for the world to see
God bless you all for trying to keep this language and culture alive!
anyone know about Kumari kandam ?
I'm going to start learning the Miriwoong language, sounds melodic.
I turned captions on.
First kid said "my favourite word in marijuana is..."
I died for two seconds.
Should compare it with some indian languages.. must be a tamil.
No, it is more in common with language of Andamanese tribals. Generically too the Australian native people are connected to Andamanese. Tamils have W. Asian ancestry genetically.
@@rbk9915 basically andabmanese also from tamil background.
@@rajmohansg No that is false. Go read up. Don;t sprout nonsense which Tamil politicians peddle.
@@rbk9915 do u know history of tamil? Just give a try.
@@rajmohansg நான் தமிழன் தான் ஆனா முட்டாள் இல்ல. உங்கள மாதிரி அரசியல்வாதி சொல்ற புருடாவ நம்பறவன் இல்ல.
Africa loves you❤❤❤stay strong
Nearly 11% of the Aboriginals have Dravidian or Tamil lineage in them. The Australian dingoes fossils never date back beyond 2217BC, the closest living relatives r the Indian Pariahs
It's Tamil only tamil can decode this language too
Mate I was thinking the exact same thing! The guy David in the video looked very Tamil or like a distant Tamil cousin or ancestor, I was quite surprised, and when I saw your video I knew that it was not just me thought this. How crazy is this huh?
Yep
The famous Indian traveller Mr Santhosh george explains his experience on visiting natives of Australia.
ua-cam.com/video/N0ykNHLM9ww/v-deo.html
@yolo onlyonce no my friend, its not about who cares but rather about how even though we all might be different culturally and ethnically, but still we all have something common in our lives with which we can connect our history with. In the end of the day we're all just human beings in this earth going about our own lives. :) cheers mate. And like your username suggests, you only live once, why live it with hate?
I love when he said everything has language,they were the true ecologist who not even understand the nature but they submerged themselves into the nature
European colonisation in Australia AKA British colonisation.
I wonder how much would it worth if they try to quantify the reparation for the damage done to the Indegenous souls.
God Bless
S RK. Right! They love to hind behind various groups, organizations, nations, countries, etc.. that’s the whole point of creating the UN and the EU and all of the various flags and languages and names, etc... when the reality is that all roads lead to ROME!
Same group people that distance themselves from past horrors and injustices are always the same lot that also vehemently opposes them being set right. Go figure!
@hater gater and who are you to proclaim the same?
Some Nobel prize winning scientist specialising in Human neuro psyche?
Come on!
You know the disaster that colonisation brought to the world. Indegenous people across the world are the only group of human race that has always been in harmony with the nature around them since time immemorial. They were happy with whatever they had back then and so are now. They never had the urge for more but to be satisfied with whatever they had. They didn't run behind the materialistic satisfaction that we do now.
And for the colonizer's quest of filling in the treasures and the neverending hunt for want, the easiest prey were none other than them.
Accept it.
I still can't believe people can have such low thoughtprocess to categorise a certain group of people to such demeaning position.
@hater gater Following Africa infront.
S RK. How do you pay someone reparations when they don’t have a currency?
I have nothing but full respect to the Miriwoong people I love the pride they have that runs in the community. It’s difficult when languages disappear over time because as myself who is an Assyrian from the Middle East our Language is Ancient Assyrian-Neo-Aramaic, our tribe still teach the mother tongue that’s gone on for thousands of years for the next generation as old as it is. I totally agree with the part when its mentioned that being able to speak the Miriwoong language allows you to open a world of opportunities - all in all you never forget where you come from and where you stand as a person, it’s best to embrace who your people are.
Goona.
@@opiumtrail7032 pussio
These people where here when we turned up and will be around long after we're gone. 🙏
The noble savage.
BJ no they won’t 😂
Ideally but they are struggling to survive as a culture. It's good that there is more work and effort going into cultural preservation but is it too late?
@@Zetunez please do NOT call them 'noble savages'! That is deeply inappropriate. They are not savages of any kind but they have endured centuries of extreme abuses from being labelled that way.
@The505Guys whose line is that? It's certainly not an anthropological one that cultural replacement is a good thing.
Cultural extinction is a bad thing: very much to be prevented by all means possible. This is because humans encode vast levels of knowledge, cultural memories, landscape expertise, important technologies in their cultures.
UNESCO, the anthropology field, archaeologists all take cultural extinctions extremely seriously as a threat.
My great grandmother spoke Scottish Gaelic as her main language. She would have been born in the highlands around 1860-70. You really have to make an effort at a government level I think as I'm an example of a family that will have spoken the same language for thousands of years and it went from my great-grandmother speaking it as her first language to my granddad speaking as his second language to my dad not speaking a word of it. A total loss of culture and language in two generations.
This sounds very much like a nilotic African language. When I close my eyes, I hear my African grandmother. I'm shocked.
They seem like an old mix of Asian and African, like they're their own race
@@manager-nim2623 They're actually the least related to modern Africans out of every racial group on earth
@manager-nim they're basically the same race as modern South indian ppl
@@LuckyDukeSeven from what I heard they're descendants of Africa and considered black.
Genetically speaking Australian aboriginals belong to the paternal DNA Haplogroup C
Haplogroup C is highest in modern day Mongolians and Siberians, lowest in Africans and Middle Easterners.
And now Europeans are teaching everyone about human rights 🤣
You can't change the past but you can improve progress to the future
They've always been hypocrites
@It’s ya boy Who started by going to other people's land? Yes, the europeans now its time to taste your own medicine.
@@baileyi594 Yes, snd you can do it by leaving their land if you regret what your ancestors did. BTW nice line.
The irony
"Indigenous peoples learning their ancestral language", what a problamatic statement.
Why is that problematic...
@@ted1990 the situation that made indigenous people to "learn" their native tongue under an institutional set up (school) suggests the way the external influence (colonization) has exerted it's power and authority over their lives.
@@lalsurya2275 This comment is a prime example of White Savior Complex. Stop getting so upset on behalf of other people and go outside.
@@lalsurya2275 oh i agree. The statement isn’t problematic though. The events leading up to it are.
Well the Romans wiped out all my Celtic ancestors and culture, people are trying to save Gaelic too.
I think tamil and aboriginal are related I am from northeast India(Manipur) but I used to study in south India(hyderabad) We had teacher and student(who were my friends) from tamil nadu I strongly belive their is relation between tamil and aboriginal
OMG I'm Assamese! I never thought I would run into another person of NE indian descent here!
These peoples are looking like typical TAMILIANS, Hope they are ancient TAMILIANS
Hey dont generalise them as tamilans they are astroloid race which are also present west and south regions of india
@@trilok7070 lol joke
All indigenous ppl came from Africa. Don't connect everything to tamil
Abilash v. Please read about the lost continent Lemuria (Kumarikandam in Tamil). It is believed to be the cradle of civilisation. It was present in southern India extending from Madagascar in the west to Australia in the east. Scripts about this continent is mentioned in Tamil literatures which are scientifically dated 3000 to 5000 years back from now. Even recently they found more than 3 lakh years old stone tools near Chennai. You could search online for neanderthal tools near Chennai. There are always hard truths in this world which will not be spread due to the impact or changes it makes to history, ex: oldest religion practised was worship of God Shiva.
@Hugh Jass which language?
These people look like South Indians. Love you my people❤️❤️
@@eemil.894 Tamil Nadu, India
Not all South Indians, tamils.
Lol, Not all South Indians are Tamils..
True they look a lot like south indians and sri Lankans. There are still tribes in mountains of Tamil nadu and Kerala who resemble aborginies.
The are natives of lemuria
Why do people ACTUALLY care about keeping a dozen or so people speaking an old isolated and useless language in the most diverse place of language on the planet?
Britain used to have hundreds of languages, only about 6 are left and now everyone can communicate openly with eachother and actually develop and improve their lives instead of speaking an old tongue limited to an old impoverished village.
If you actually care about a dying language, learn it yourself instead of saying others should. Make it your own crippling and practically useless task.
Especially when there’s no literature of any significance in that language. You’re better off bringing Latin back
@@AsianTheDomination At least Latin has some purpose, I mean hell it technically never truly died since we use it in literature, law, medicine, science and so on.
But to make a literal toolshed speaker population language be forced or pitied to be learned by the majority is a waste of time unless the language brings actually some advantage over others.
@@sr.mental5876 what is the purpose of language my friend?
That language actually sounds like tamil.
Lived up that way for a stretch , loved hearing the native tongue of the locals 🤙🦘
@1:24 wait hol-up. Does that granny have a full on goatee??
Oh shit, for real? Their faces all look the same!
Definitely an ancient race of human beings ...
@Bunker Sieben nope, I hate everyone equally.
@@lukeysharp94 Good lad!
@@lukeysharp94 a fellow man with culture i see. I hate em all with equal amount of hatred as well.
Just like we Jharkhandi people (tribal people of Indian state Jharkhand) call a bike - phatphatiya, it’s the sound that bike makes
Wo shabd pure desh me istmaal hota hai bhai..
Ye to hamareRajasthan me bhi bolte hai aur all india me bolte hai
Oooh as an American I’ve never seen the indigenous Australian people in my life or was even exposed to them 😱 this is really cool
You think Australia is only an Anglo-Saxon nation. WRONG!
Beneson Kharbudon coincidently Europe is now unfortunately becoming like America, it’s just one big circle.
Jason Mason who said they thought that?
dbsk06 you’re lucky as an Australian I’ll tell you they’re horrible and very dangerous
@@pithitammegatherium7208 alright convict
These australian natives looks like south Indians , it seems they are the people who migrated to AUS long back.
As a South Indian I agree
Yes they are South Indian descendants new research suggests .
@Sahil Achary നമസ്കാരം
@@pyaariiilalfromindia8716 not really Kerala, more like Tamil Nadu look
@@culturedvulture2015 yep. But that grandpa looked like someone who has both tamil and Kerala features. Those grannies one the other had features of both Tamil and African
1:22 a man or woman?
Sua mae
A woman with hormonal problems probably
in tamil nadu state of india u can see this type of aboriginal australoid people
This is a good initiative. Keep strong.
She said Gayi gayi means Grandma. Reminds of isiZulu, where Gogo means Grandma. Even that uncle's word for car is similar to another Southern African tribe called the Tswana and they call a car " koloyi ".
Australian natives are super unique human beings.
Every group is unique.
I'm from South side of India,i think after few years different languages of Southern part of India will be disappeared by imposition of English language on our kids by school teacher and parents
Definitely this got to be related to Tamil...
English is going to kill all Indian languages.. unfortunately, Indians ignore this fact and fight among themselves saying Hindi is being imposed.. Telugu is being imposed.. Tamil.. etc...
South indian people have problem with speaking hindi which is another indian language but they have no problem speaking in english..ironic.lol
They dont speak hindi... but south Indians are the multilingual people in India..they can speak atleast 3 to 5 languages.. they learn what is necessary. .that's exactly why they are the most wanted by multinational organizations to lead their worldwide operations...
@@MysteryMan101 do north indians learn south indian languages?
@@onlineealex north india is also multilingual.
I never expected this from BBC at some time this happens
I am from the southern part of India and some of these people totally resemble the way people in my village look.
Kumar, they have a variety of looks between them, some even resemble Kanaks
Because there used to be a bridge from india all the way to australia build by a monkey army, the remains are still under the sea. Look it up.
@@kwekiejekie3820 lol !
@@PHlophe the average Australian Aboriginal has looks which resemble many southern Indians. The people you talk about - Kanaks - are Melanesian. The only people in Australia who resemble them are Torres strait islanders who aren't aboriginal Australians (but included as indigenous Australians)
The first car name as guaderi...Means horse in tamil language
Same in malayalam as well
no native horses on this continent tho
Amazing ancient people. This is very cool to me. Those aboriginal people look like they are from a past time. They look so unique. I think they are special and carry a unique bloodline that is not found anywhere else. I would love to meet one of them one day and talk to them.
They come from Southern India.
no John 'they' dont.... please research a bit more...
@@meheretoday6968 They are descended from Dravidians. They have DNA from India. The closest people they resemble are south Indians. They migrated from Asia. They didn't spring up out of the ground.
John let me clarify what I said...the aboriginal people of Australia are diverse. Some have ancestors coming from one area of the world and another may have ancestors coming from another part of the world... You can claim what ever you choose to claim on behalf of every aboriginal Australian but mate you would be stretching to claim they originated in one place... but keep telling yourself you are correct if you choose...PS: I am of aboriginal descent and do not have any southern Indian DNA but am able to track the route my ancestors took to get here... but as I said please by all means now tell me I am mistaken ....
@@meheretoday6968 What are your DNA percentage results?
They look so similar to Indians. Indians/Dravidians, Australian aborigines and Africans are probably lost cousins.
Well their linguistic terms had some similarity with Tamil.
Gagayi is grandma in their language Aayi is grandma in Tamil.
Well a few tribea seem to have distant similarities with South indians. But rest are completely different.
@@abhisekpatnala I'm a Tamil Myself yeah that does sound similar in phoenetics nothing to brag about here n all but looks wise too thr around 15% similarity.
Heard somewhere that 1 of the aboringial groups in australia had some connection of DNA with that of south indians.
Anyways all humans are migrants & thats just fine.
@@abhisekpatnala Cool information bro. Was always fascinated about the Tamil language. This provided a lot of insight!!
I guess anything’s possible. Aboriginals believe in destiny and that Australia is their motherland (see out of Australia theory). There’s evidence of their DNA spread out all over the world.
Love Muffin...you are correct
இவர்கள் பேசுவதில் தமிழோசை கேட்கிறது.
Apdiye onnum ilaye.
@@ajaymadhusudan2481
Either you should be Malayali
Or
Telugu ?.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Odane tamil la relate panni vidathinga da
I am tamil, but I can't hear it 😅
The famous Indian traveller Mr Santhosh george explains his experience on visiting natives of Australia.
ua-cam.com/video/N0ykNHLM9ww/v-deo.html
Cultural Darwinism is real. No one has more responsibility to keep the ancestral culture and language alive than the descendants. The descendants will only do this if there’s clear incentive to do so. Good will alone will not prevent the death of languages. My best wishes for all indigenous cultures around the world.
Preserving language is very important.
@AGASTHYA fuck off you ignorant little man
@@jamesfletcher5906 fuck you too infidel
why?
@Lana Joy That's a disgusting thing to say. How do you know they wouldn't have "evolved" had Australia not been colonised? It sounds to me like you're making assumptions.
@AGASTHYA Maybe it did once, but not now, so shut up already.
Sadly my nans language (her mob is from northern territory) has been forgotten as the last speaker died in 2009 and she was stolen at a young age. Glad to see there keeping the language alive!
PipSaSqeak I live in the Northern Territory as well, I’ve seen the research on languages and it’s so sad.
@Jay Jay My nan was stolen and only recently been understanding more about where I come from, my mum isn't Aboriginal either. My Father grew up mostly isolated from anything Aboriginal aside some community and relatives.
@Jay Jay she was attending school and her family ran a farm? The documents even said she was stolen because of her being half caste
@Jay Jay stolen generation documents, on specifically my nana.
It's good to bring the indigenous language come back to live. I think it is extra hard for English speaking countries to conserve local languages because English is an international language and people tend to just learn English alone. I think it's also the same case happening in the mainland Great Britain where local languages there are being left by young generations and replaced with English.
the native young girl has fabulous teeth.... People would pay for teeth that white and straight.