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North Australian Aboriginal naming conventions

I was looking at old census records to verify info about family members and I once again became fascinated by the naming conventions we use, they're similar to Afro-American, Melanesian, Polynesian, or even Balkan naming conventions that I've seen.

This is mostly due to the diverse commercial migration we received once people had began actually moving into Northern Australia.

Examples:

A guy will be named Boyka (Bugulju) Koscis because his father was randomly half Hungarian and liked the Boyka movies.

A girl could be named Wilhelmetta Ahsan-Chon because she was named after her father (which is very common here), and her tribe is mostly mixed with Chinese and Pashto from the 1800s.

A family I knew from school were like this: the father's name was Raymond, his first daughter was Raymeesha, and once he had a son he was Raymond Jr, then his second son was Raymonus.

A guy could be named:

Salko Murrudthjanypa

Alekzandaros McArthur

Styepan Jurrunytjak

Bubble-Bubble Johnson

Springheel-Jack Cattlecompany

King Blackskin-Willy (Wumbungu) Jackson-Won

All the examples provided are also real people, and these aren't even the craziest names.

In the Gulf of Carpentaria I've seen they get really creative/silly with modern names, I've known people named Avenger Stockman, Rifle Riverwater, Frog Bull, Buffalosoldier MacMahon, Eminem Gujuk, Tupakiesha Smithson, Horse Rodeo, Big-eye Williams, Japan Del Torres, Batman Robinsonrivermouth, the list can go on and on.

With little kids today I've seen a lot of LeBrons, Ronaldos, Neymars, and Messis due to their sports becoming popular in the remote Aboriginal communities.

What do you guys think of our naming conventions? and if you have any questions about what migrations and influences cause some of them I'd be happy to explain.

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u/AdBright1820 — 1 day ago
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North Australian Aboriginal naming conventions

I was looking at old census records to verify info about family members and I once again became fascinated by the naming conventions we use, they're similar to Afro-American, Melanesian, Polynesian, or even Balkan naming conventions that I've seen.

This is mostly due to the diverse commercial migration we received once people had began actually moving into Northern Australia.

Examples:

A guy will be named Boyka (Bugulju) Koscis because his father was randomly half Hungarian and liked the Boyka movies.

A girl could be named Wilhelmetta Ahsan-Chon because she was named after her father (which is very common here), and her tribe is mostly mixed with Chinese and Pashto from the 1800s.

A family I knew from school were like this: the father's name was Raymond, his first daughter was Raymeesha, and once he had a son he was Raymond Jr, then his second son was Raymonus.

A guy could be named:

Salko Murrudthjanypa

Alekzandaros McArthur

Styepan Jurrunytjak

Bubble-Bubble Johnson

Springheel-Jack Cattlecompany

King Blackskin-Willy (Wumbungu) Jackson-Won

All the examples provided are also real people, and these aren't even the craziest names.

In the Gulf of Carpentaria I've seen they get really creative/silly with modern names, I've known people named Avenger Stockman, Rifle Riverwater, Frog Bull, Buffalosoldier MacMahon, Eminem Gujuk, Tupakiesha Smithson, Horse Rodeo, Big-eye Williams, Japan Del Torres, Batman Robinsonrivermouth, the list can go on and on.

With little kids today I've seen a lot of LeBrons, Ronaldos, Neymars, and Messis due to their sports becoming popular in the remote Aboriginal communities.

What do you guys think of our naming conventions? and if you have any questions about what migrations and influences cause some of them I'd be happy to explain.

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u/AdBright1820 — 1 day ago
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Alternative states of Australia

For this to happen, states would have to be less clingy to separatist regions like they are today, and the country would have to be less urban dominated to allow settlement of land that is more sparse but habitat by thousands today.

Carpentaria is made of the tropical regions of the NT and WA, the Kriol Country, since they already are very closely tied to eachother. This is also why Carpentaria extends into the rest of the Gulf Coast.

New Holland is mostly the Pilbara region of WA, but also takes a bit of land from the Kimberley, Gascoyne, and Midwest. This state would he very resource wealthy.

Auralia was a proposed state centred on the Goldfields-Esperance region, also a very resources heavy state but the Esperance area is very green, similar to the areas around Perth.

Westralia uses the remaining land of WA, and is the part of the state which is culturally closer to the region's surrounding Perth.

Centralia is very self explanatory, the Central Australia region but also going a little East just to make prettier borders. Indigenous identity would probably be the strongest in the country here.

Southland is essentially SA, but some land north was given to Centralia because the desert areas are more tied to the Alice Springs regions.

Capricornia is another proposed state that was continuously blocked down by SE QLD, the border I use follows the line of the Tropic of Capricorn.

Queensland stays mostly the same aside from some of it's more arid land going to Centralia.

New England was a state proposed for that Northeastern corner of NSW that you see there, a reasonably populous region.

Riverina here is a lot bigger than in a lot of other maps, taking all of the Western NSW regions, but also taking the Riverine areas of VIC.

What is left of New South Wales is just the NSW Southcoast and the Greater Sydney Regional Area, it would continue to be the most populated state despite losing majority of its size.

Princeland is made up of Western VIC, with the slither of Geelong also included for a populous Capital, much of Victorians from from Melbourne, but much of Victoria is very different to Melbourners.

Victoria keeps Eastern VIC, due to it having no capital worthy city, I would've made Melbourne and Sydney city-states, but I feel like that's too much.

Even if the rest of Australia had the same population as now, there are many regions that would do fine as states.

I personally think that the Pilbara and Kimberley should be in the NT which would make a very strong case for statehood, and Capricornia, New England, Riverina, even West VIC all have very strong cases for statehood. Borders aren't supposed to stay how they are forever, especially provincial borders.

u/AdBright1820 — 2 months ago
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First time noticing Snapchat has Vojvodina as a breakaway region or something, it has a light border like Republika Srpska

u/AdBright1820 — 2 months ago