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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an Aboriginal people of southeast Australia. The first Aborigines to encounter English settlers (1788), the Dharuk were culturally assimilated into the Australian population beginning in the mid-1800s.
- noun The extinct Pama-Nyungan language of the Dharuk.
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- proper noun The language of the Australian aboriginal people who lived in the area of what is now
Sydney from the southern shore of Port Jackson south to Botany Bay and as far inland as what is now Camden and Penrith. Closely related to Dhurga and Thurawal.
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Etymology: Dharuk Australian aboriginal language of the Port Jackson area bumariny
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That is not because their presence had made no impact on English, for more than fifty words were borrowed from Dharuk, most of them in the early period.
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