ABORIGINES

Aborigines

Flag:

The intend of the colors is yellow for the sun, black for the sky at night and red for the red earth. (There are some people who are convinced that black stands for the skin color and more over there is the opinion, that red represents the grouted blood of the Aborigines.)

The flag was invented in 1971 by the Aboriginal artist Harold Thomas with the intention to symbolize race and identity of the Aborigines.

Language:

All the different tribes and clans of the Aborigines have their own typical language.

To sum up there are more than 250 groups of languages and concluding all the various accents there are more than 750 languages. It all goes back to the origin of the Aborigines, rooted in parts of Africa and Indonesia.

Moreover the Aborigines developed their own culture and language in Australia long before white man came into their country.

So there is definitely not just one “Aboriginal language”.

Most of the time they do not understand each other, if they are from different tribes.

Like the Native Americans in America they also had to suffer and still suffer of politics of assimilation, for example: They had to object their own language, were forced to speak English and to deny their Aboriginal roots. 
That is why today most of them are used to speak English.

So furthermore this is one reason for the lost of many Aboriginal languages.

There is no written language. In the past the people told each other stories or songs to pass their knowledge to someone else.

During time less and less Aborigines used their own indigenous language. 
For example about 60% in Northern Territory use their indigenous language, but most of the time only at home.

(Today the widest dispersion is found in: Arrernte (2.800 speaker), Djambarrpuyngu (2.700 speaker) and Pitjantjatjara (2.600speaker) (all in Northern Territory) )

Even today the languages of the Aborigines are still not fully explored.

Now most of the Aborigines live in cities and speak English just like everyone else.

Diet:

Today most of the Aborigines eat the food just like every Australian.

Traditionally the Aborigines spend their life close to nature. So they eat seafood, native animals like kangaroos, wombats, snakes, insects and vegetables. Originally they are people of hunters, gatherers and fishers. They inhabit an enormous knowledge of how to use plants for medicine and cooking. "Bush food" is the Australian denotation for using only native plants and animals for your diet, like its common for the Aborigines.