SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian author Hugh Lunn remembers a time when a red-haired man was called Bluey, a silly person was compared to a parrot and "mooning" over a woman was something romantic.

Tiwi, an Australian language isolate, is spoken on the Tiwi Islands which are near the Northern Territory of Australia, according to Omniglot. Some of Tiwi’s different names are Diwi, Wongak, and ...

It took a while for Australians to appreciate their linguistic distinctiveness. The editors at the Australian National Dictionary Center work to document it. By Damien Cave CANBERRA, Australia — ...

Murrinh-Patha is an Australian language that belongs to the Southern Daly language family, which is also known as Garama, Karama and Nangu, according to Endangered Languages. Murrinh-Patha has three ...

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Bonzer. Dinkum. Troppo. We love our distinctive words and phrases. We revel in the confusion they cause outsiders. We celebrate the stories behind them. We even make up a few furphies about them. What ...