Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIn an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, Mbabaram, the word for "Dog" is almost exactly the same as the English word for "Dog". The similarity is a complete coincidence.en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1external-linkIn an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, Mbabaram, the word for "Dog" is almost exactly the same as the English word for "Dog". The similarity is a complete coincidence.en.m.wikipedia.orgIliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
…the Mbabaram word for “dog” was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word…
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoHow? Dingos aren’t dogs, so how did they have a word for a species that they hadn’t seen before colonisation?
How? Dingos aren’t dogs, so how did they have a word for a species that they hadn’t seen before colonisation?