demonstrations of spoken Dharug. A recreated version of the language is spoken at welcome ceremonies conducted by the Dharug people. As of 2005, some children at Chifley College's Dunheved campus in Sydney had started learning the reconstructed Dharug language, and parts of the language have been taught at the Sydney Festival. In December 2020 Olivia Fox sang a version of Australia's national anthem in Dharug at Tri Nations Test match between Australia and Argentina. Phonology Consonants Vowels The language may have had a distinction of vowel length, but this is difficult to determine from the extant data. Examples The Dharug language highlights the strong link between people and place through its clan naming convention. This can be seen through the suffix identifier -gal and -galyan which refer to -man of and -woman of. Clan names such as Burramuttagal (identifying the people) therefore translate to man of Burramutta - also known as Parramatta (identifying the place those specific people are from); Gadigal (identifying the people), man of Gadi - Sydney within Gadigal Country (identifying the place those specific people are from); and, Kamaygalyan (identifying the people), woman of Kamay - Botany Bay (identifying the place those specific people are from). This people-and-place naming convention within the Dharug language can be seen throughout all of the clans of the Eora Nation. Another example of the strong link between people and place, but without the suffix, can be seen with the nation name 'Eora' itself, which translates to people and from here or this place. The name Eora refers collectively to the people of the Sydney region and also translates to the name of the (Greater Sydney) region inhabited by those people. English borrowed words Examples of English words borrowed from Dharug are: Names of animals: dingo, koala, wallaby, wobbegong, wombat Trees and plants: burrawang, kurrajong, geebung, myall, waratah The tools boomerang, a word from the Turuwal sub-group, and woomera (spear-thrower) The word gin, a now derogatory term for an indigenous woman, is believed to derive from Dharug diyin, "woman" The word koradji, referring to an Aboriginal person with traditional skills in medicine, comes from Dharug. References Sources External links The Aboriginal language of Sydney (with audio sample) Jeremy Steele's partial reconstruction of the Sydney language Bibliography of Dharug people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Bibliography of Eora people and language resources, at the