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Indigenous Australian[edit]

What's the most common indigenous Australian language? Basilmorgen (talk) 16:22, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

According to http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au/main.php, it may be Pitjantjatjara or Warlpiri, each with approx. 3,000 speakers, followed by Tiwi and Arrernte with 2,100 and 2,000 respectively. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How many indigenous Australians speak English as their first language nowadays? Snowsuit Wearer (talk|contribs) 16:37, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most of them, based on comparing the population to the number of indigenous indigenous language speakers. According to Indigenous Australians#Population:

In the 2006 Census, 407,700 respondents declared they were Aboriginal, 29,512 declared they were Torres Strait Islander, and a further 17,811 declared they were both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. After adjustments for undercount, the indigenous population at the end of June 2006 was estimated to be 517,200, representing about 2.5% of the population.[135]

Hope that helps. The Transhumanist 08:56, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Youth World Championships[edit]

The article about Bandy World Championship for youths was recently moved to Youth Bandy World Championship. Was this correct from a linguistic point of view? None are an official name but the article is a page about many different youth competitions. Snowsuit Wearer (talk|contribs) 16:36, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are certainly plenty of examples of similar usage; see London Youth Games, African Women's Youth Handball Championship and National Youth Competition (rugby league) picked at random. In British English, "youths" has a slightly negative overtone [1] [2] [3] and "young people" is more often used when not describing anti-social behaviour [4] [5] [6]. Alansplodge (talk) 17:59, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]