Indigenous Australians
First Nations people of Australia and its islands
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Summary
Indigenous Australians is a human population[1]. They ranks in the top 2% of human population entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,840 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country of citizenship: Australia[3]
- Native language: Australian Aboriginal languages[4]
- Religion or worldview: Christianity[5], irreligion[6], Australian Aboriginal mythology[7]
- Instance of: indigenous people[8]
- Ancestral home: Australia[9]
- Location: Australian continent[10], Torres Strait Islands[11]
- Subclass of: Australians[12], inhabitant[13], indigenous peoples of Oceania[14]
- Commons category: Aboriginal Australians[15]
- Said to be the same as: indigenous peoples of Australia[16]
- Residence: Torres Strait Islands[17], Australian continent[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Indigenous peoples of Australia[19]
- Population: 798,400[20]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22]
- Partially coincident with: Australians[23]
- Languages spoken, written or signed: Australian Aboriginal languages[24], English[25]
- Different from: Torres Strait Islanders[26]
- Indigenous to: Australia[27]
- Studied by: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community[28]
- Has part(s) of the class: Torres Strait Islanders[29], First Nations[30]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
- Grammatical number: plural[32]
Why It Matters
Indigenous Australians has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] They is known by 104 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]