Talk:Koori

Koorie not an Aust-wide term

The article says: Because of the wide variety of indigenous languages and cultures, koori has not gained Australia-wide acceptance, being confined mostly to New South Wales and Victoria. This sentence suggests that the term is an appropriate term to be used all over the country and is a very Sydney/Melbourne-centric view. Rather than being a synonym for 'Indigenous Australians', the various terms listed in the article have come to refer to the Indigenous people in the areas where they are used. So Murri is used to mean Indigenous people who are from Queensland (not just in SE Qld as the reference suggests, but I know from experience that it is also used in North Qld) Yolngu means an Aboriginal person from Arnhem Land and so on. If I was in Qld and somebody used the term Koorie, that to me would suggest "Abouriginal people in south eastern Australia", just as Yolngu would mean people from NE NT. I think the article should be changed to reflect this. Saying that the term hasn't 'gained acceptance' is inacurrate.

Thanks for pointing that out. There seems to be some confusion vis-à-Vis Koori etc. Would be good if you could build on (and bring some clarity to) this and related articles (it seems you have some first hand knowledge). Even a quick google search will lead one to think that Koori equals Indigenous Australians. --Ezeu 11:03, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

korri

what language is spoken by koori people today?

English. --Ezeu 19:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Just like a lot of Ugandans speak English. But some don't. --Garrie 05:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Koori language and people

I'm not too sure how many languages are spoken by Koori. I know that at the time of colonisation there were over 500 languages spoken on the continent. Today there are about 50 indigenous Australian languages still spoken. I thought that Tasmania was also inhabited by Koori prior to colonisation. That has not been mentioned in the article.

There were indiginous inhabitants. I understand they were no more closely related to the kooris around Melbourne, then the kooris were to Mouris (that is to say, they were from a different era of human migration of Australia to Kooris). No, sorry, I don't have a reference for that, other than "that's what I've been told".--Garrie 05:03, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I belive the closest area of full blooded koories who inhabit the original area's are near Sale and the Murray riverarea, but I am not sure about that. And the CERES farm in Brunswick they have ties to the Wurundjeri group who inhabited the area and they still preserve some lexicon of there language. Enlil Ninlil 08:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

These include: Koori (or Koorie) in New South Wales and Victoria; Murri in Queensland; Noongar in southern Western Australia; Yamatji in Central Western Australia; Wangkai in the Western Australian Goldfields; Nunga in southern South Australia; Anangu in northern South Australia, and neighbouring parts of Western Australia and Northern Territory; Yapa in western central Northern Territory; Yolngu in eastern Arnhem Land (NT) and Palawah (or Pallawah) in Tasmania These are names from the Australian aboriginal article. Enlil Ninlil

japanese for ice

koori, or こおり　or the kanji 氷 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.52.143.187 (talk) 02:55, 22 April 2007 (UTC).

referencing to substatiate claims in final paragraph

"Many indigenous Australians object to the use of the terms aborigine and aboriginal, as terms which had been forced on them. They prefer to use words from their own languages. In some languages of southeast Australia (parts of New South Wales and Victoria), the words coorie, kori, kory, koorie, kuri, kooli, or koole mean "person" or "people". " These two sentences need references to substantiate their claims of being forced and more referencing on the history of the terms, and their spread. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.253.87.110 (talk) 06:58, 16 May 2010 (UTC)