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The Yolngu people are indigenous Australian people that live in the northern-eastern Arnhem Land of Australia. This area of Australia is very diverse, with its rugged coastlines, remote islands, rivers, lush rainforest and savanna woodlands. All this making it perfect for the Yolngu people to live in. The Yolngu people lived in clans near the coast/islands of the Australian territory. The Yolngu langue consist of about twelve different dialects all of them with its owns unique name. But the Yolngu Matha or the “Yolngu tongue” is most widely known. It wasn’t uncommon for mothers to speak different dialects as compared to their husband and therefore their kids would grow up to be bilingual with both or even more mastered languages. As with the

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