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126. Survival: Custodians of the Languages

The Allusionist

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The Languages of the Aborigines

In bungelon, which is a central coast of new south wales, the word for shoulder and tree branch and wing of a te fur bird is all the same word. We use english terms to denote family structure, but we use them in a really non english way. There are some definitive ways of viewing gender and gender s. You very definitely can be a woman who has a female husband, because of the way the family line works, she'd be considered your husband. Even if there's no actual lake marriage that's happened, the responsibilities remain the same. And so it might be in a romantic relationship with her brothers, but because of the structure instead of the personal things,

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