Anne speaking Yumplatok | Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders | Wikitongues

From First Languages Australia, Anne Gela speaks Yumplatok or Torres Strait Creole, one of 300+ languages of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. Learn more: firstlanguages....
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In this video, Anne Gela speaks English and Torres Strait Creole, referred to as Yumplatok by speakers. The video was self-recorded in Rockhampton, Australia. Yumplatok is spoken on multiple Torres Strait Islands and in Northern Cape York and South-Western Coastal Papua. There are more than 6,000 native speakers and 25,000 L2 speakers. In the regions where it is spoken, it is used as a lingua franca for business and trade.
It is believed that Yumplatok emerged in the late 1800s. Different dialects of this Creole reflect the influences of different languages that sailors would have spoken when trading and communicating throughout the region of usage. Some of the Indigenous Torres Strait languages have a strong influence on Yumplatok, as does Malay, Meriam Mir, and Paupuan, among others; notably, loanwords are sometimes taken from Japanese when the terms are specific to Japanese culture. Today, the language has become a cultural indicator of identity and ethnic pride, especially with young Torres Strait Islanders.
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[@mathewjr]

I am from Papua New Guinea and I understand every word spoken. 💜🇵🇬

[@MalaysianTropikfusion]

It's fascinating how one language 'means business' more than another in a household.

[@jordanalejandro1345]

My mom would do the same thing while I was growing up. When my mom whipped out the Spanish I knew I was in trouble haha

[@ngoelladughore1954]

Great to hear. Solomon Islands also spoke a creole language from English.

[@AliKaks]

Sounds like the Tok Pisin we speak here in PNG

[@zeitxgeist]

THANKYOU. We need these languages to survive- it's so sad that we drove them out

[@nakablopom5995]

damn I'm from PNG and I can understand this like it's so bloody similar to PNG pidgin damn

[@louisAima-pk2ox]

❤nice broken pidgin I understand everything

[@krispytorres6408]

Beautiful older sister

[@dayron25]

Sounds a bit like Tok Pisin

[@hozza0411]

PNG and Torres Strait have a lot of similarities

[@theophonchana5025]

Torres Strait Creole, Yumplatok Creole, Yumpla Tok Creole

[@katahi0749]

Kinda sounds like Tok pisin
But with more English

[@zeitxgeist]

It's an English based creole (we spell it, I mean this specifically, Kriol) spoken by indigenous communities in northern Australia. The administration had caused havoc for decades because they were thought of as simply speaking a sort of poor man's English, but it's significantly different (and developed enough) for a few of them to become legit languages as opposed to a pidgin

[@johnjohn-bf7ww]

Olsem bishlama ya language blo vanuatu

[@dylanlake7]

They look African. The first peoples of the world

[@user-dn8ub2dv4l]

🫶🏾👍🏾

[@matthewmann8969]

More unions

[@xwtek3505]

Why does she sound like speaking English only?

[@khangiluta461]

Because it is English, or rather, pidgin English. She obviously can't speak any Australian language.

[@andrewdunbar828]

@@khangiluta461 You are obviously wrong. She says at the beginning, from the 7 second mark, that her first language is Kala Lagaw Ya, which is an Australian language even if you don't accept pidgins that evolved in Australia as Australian. I would love it if Anne has also done a video like this in Kala Lagaw Ya.

[@georgianat-p5438]

​@@khangiluta461 she said her language is Kala Lagaw Ya which is a traditional language from western & central islands but in the video she is speaking Torres Strait Creole (Yumplatok)

[@user-ov9zm5zj4v]

Torres Straits belongs to the melanesian (PNG)

[@georgianat-p5438]

no, the Torres Strait Islands are a part of QLD, Australia

[@hobii1345]

@@georgianat-p5438yeah but descendants from PNG

[@georgianat-p5438]

@@hobii1345 i meant legally they are part of australia but they do fall under the Melanesian group so does Fiji, PNG, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands ect..

[@hobii1345]

@@georgianat-p5438 yep that’s true :)

[@isabellamundraby5819]

@@hobii1345they are both connected to png and aboriginal making it uniue