Apud B Robson <Xb-robsonX@gol.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Apud B Robson <Xb-robsonX@gol.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>>>That would be even funnier if 15 Aborgines got off the bus. I might try 
>>>to organize that when I go home.
>> 
>> I know a Japanese-speaking Aboriginal. She may well be the only one.

>Send her over I'd love to introduce her as a real Australian (whatever
>that means)

She may be visiting the expo in Aichi next year as part of the 
Victorian govt contingent.

>Do you know anything about Aboriginal languages? 

SFA.

>I don't know enough
>about linguistics to understand all the technical terms but I wonder
>what forms it uses. 

Which ones? Most counts are around the 600 mark.

>My original interest in Japanese was a sort of
>applied linguistics, I was interested in how a very different language
>worked.

Most field-level lexicographers in Australia work in Aboriginal and/or
Pacific island languages, so I occasionally bump into them. My main
contact has been with helping a couple put together XML structures
for recording things. I've never picked up more that a word or two,
and know nothing of the language structures.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学