Detroit Tour

Introduction
I went on a tour Saturday @ the World African Festival.  I learned alot about Detroit.  The tour guide taught us about a semi-French mayor, hotels, a restaurant, clubs, Motown, Black Bottom, Paradise Valley, interaction between my tribe and the Abrahmists, hospitals, 1963, racism, KKK, Henry Ford, numbers, Detroit Urban League, and the flight of the Black middle class.  I learned so much that day!!!!

1st Mayor of Detroit
Detroit was a French colony, then a British one.  In 1796 it became a U.S. city.  John R. Williams was the first mayor.  He became the mayor several times.  His parents was Cecile Campau and Thomas Williams.  His mother was a rich of a rich French family.  Thomas was a British landowner and a merchant.  He married his cousin and had 10 kids with her.  He fought in the war of 1812.         

Black Bottom
Most members of tribe lived here during the early and mid 20th century.  There were many great musicians that lived here.  The French called it black bottom because of the black top soil.  A freeway was built here, so the people that lived here had to relocate.  The government didn't help them with housing because most politicians are racist!!!!!!!!   

Paradise Valley
This was the center of African American bizznesses and entertainment.  People from Black Bottom would come here often.  A lot of famous musicians played and sung here.  Paradise Theatre was created there, now its Orchestra Hall .   A part of it was turned it into a Chrysler Freeway, so factory workers can go to the suburbs 4 work.  Another part of it became Ford Field.   

My tribe and the Abrahamists
Members of my tribe moved into areas in Detroit that were owned by Ashkenazi Jews.  My people couldn't purchase certain property because of racism.  But, Jews would sell their property to my people because they also faced discrimination.  B4 Paradise Valley became a Black Mecca it was Zion.  Jewish bizznesses and entertainment was there b4 it became Black. 
                               
The Pelican
This was a restaurant, it started 1948-1981.  It was in a large house.  The owners lived next door.  Home cooked meals was severed here.  There much room 4 sitting in the restaurant.  So, when it filled up you had to take it to go.  The food was delicious; it was soul food.  Duck, fried chicken, meatloaf, fish, mac & cheese, greens, string beans, peach cobbler, etc.   


Hotels
Gotham Hotel: It open from 1943-1963.  It was a 5 star hotel for rich members of my tribe.  Musicians, celebrities, athletes, would stay there when they came to Detroit, because they couldn't stay white hotels.  Numbers were popular there. 

Tuller Hotel: Lew Tuller founded this hotel on 1906.  It was the greatest hotel in Detroit!!!  It was shut down in 1976 and demolished in 1991.

The Cochrane House: It started @ the end of 2018.  It is a bed & breakfast.  This house was built in 1870 by an eye doctor.  A year later Lyman Cochrane bought it. 

Hospitals
Until 1945 most black babies were born @ home.  Black people were allowed in hospitals.  In response to this 30 black hospitals were created in Detroit.  Later on white hospitals got colored sections, but they wouldn't hire black doctors.  After integration insurance companies wouldn't pay black hospitals, so they went out of bizzness.   

1963
Gotham Hotel: It was shut down in 1963, because of numbers.  It was the headquarters of numbers in Detroit.  It made 30 million a year.  Then it was demolished in the next year. 

Garfield Hotel was burnt down this year.  No knows who did it.

Flame Show Bar was closed this year.

Sum black bizznesses lost their land to the government on this year.

Clubs
Flame Show Bar: There were black businesses in this club.  Berry Gordy and famous singers met each other here.  It became the prequel of Motown. 

Graystone Ballroom: It had a lot famous acts, but members of my tribe could only go there on Monday night.

Henry Swing Club: It was a popular club and it was sung about in Boogie Chillen.  It was John Lee Hooker song.  He was the grandfather of rock and roll.   

Motown
Berry Gordy Jr. created Motown.  He worked with people he met with @ the Flame Show Bar.  Sum of those people were Smokey Robinson, Jackie Wilson, Marvin Gaye, and Harvey Fuqua.  Berry Gordy Sr. and David Ruffin built Studio A.  Temptations and Jackson 5 were the most popular singing groups in Motown.  The Marvelettes were the second singing group of Motown.  They had great success.  Their most famous song was Please Mr. Postman.  The Supremes were the greatest lady singing group of all time!!!!  Stop! In the Name of Love is their most famous song.  Diana Ross is the most famous Supreme.  They made 153 albums.  So amazing!!!!!!  Berry Gordy shouldn't have moved to California.  Great talent lives in Detroit!!!!!          
                            
KKK
In the 1930's there were 100,000 members of the KKK living in Michigan.  Half of them lived in Detroit.  They met @ a building called Kastle.  That building today is used for something else.  The headquarters of the KKK is now Howell, MI.

Henry Ford Motor Company
25% of Black men in Detroit worked @ Henry
Ford Motor Company.  They were given the hardest jobs because Henry Ford was racist.  They would get injured from doing those jobs every month.  After Henry son took over he gave Black men better jobs and they were able to become supervisors. 

Numbers
This form of gambling was popular among minorities in the United States.  People would pay a bettor sum $ to pick 3 numbers.  If they win they'll get over $1,000!!!!  It was popular in Detroit, Boston, New York, Chicago,  Atlanta, and the Bahamas.  The lottery is based on this game. 
                             
Detroit Urban League
There was a famous architect named Albert that lived Detroit.  His house became the first building of Detroit Urban League.  They helped southern Blacks find jobs in Detroit.  They also helped promote civil rights.  Sum of their services: WIC, Food Program, education, housing, etc                                                                                                                  
Black Flight
In the 70's and 80's many middle class Black people left Detroit 4 the suburbs.  Detroit lost a lot of taxes because of that.  There are still many of my people leaving Detroit.  They move to areas with more economic opportunities.  White people are moving to downtown Detroit.  I prefer my city stay Black!!!!!!
                             
Conclusion
The first mayor of Detroit was French.  Many members of my tribe lived in Black Bottom.  Paradise Valley many Black bizznesses.  The Pelican served home-cooked meals.  There were many amazing hotels and clubs.  Motown was born here!!!!  There were racists hospitals and the KKK was headquartered in Detroit.  Henry Ford Motor Company was in Detroit.  Detroit Urban League helped Black southerns get jobs in Detroit.  Numbers were popular 4 over 30 years in Detroit.  A lot of middle class folk left Detroit to broaden horizons.       

References
https://www.tripsavvy.com/list-of-detroit-mayors-1084871
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom,_Detroit
https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/paradise-valley
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/gotham-hotel-detroit-michigan-1943-1963/
https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/tuller-hotel
https://www.thecochranehouse.com
https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/08/detroit-jazz-and-blues
Flame Show Bar
https://www.hourdetroit.com/community/bottoms-up/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Chillen%27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Fuqua
https://www.motownmuseum.org/
https://www.history-of-rock.com/supremes.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/5962
https://www.deturbanleague.org/
https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2016/12/black_flight_to_suburbs_masks.html
https://www.ssn.tv/news/does-detroit-have-a-black-flight-problem/

Weekend Fun

Introduction
I was bizzy all last weekend.  I went to the African World Festival @ Charles Wright Museum of African American History, Natural Hair Expo @ Cobo Center, and a family panic @ Wallow Park.  I had a blast!!!  I danced, watch stage performances, went on a tour, listened to speakers, met people, gave out my info, and bought stuff.  The events took place between 8/16-18/2019.

Friday
This was the  the first day of the African World Festival.  I got there early, so I had a lot of down time.  I bought a triple shot espresso, and to 2 bottles of water.  The triple shot kept me up all night.  I bought a omelette, hash browns, and toast @ Olympia Coney Island.  The egg white omelette had U.S. cheese, broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, sausage, and bacon.  I mixed it with my hash browns and ketchup.  I ate wheat toast with grape jelly. 

There was an opening ritual on stage @ 4:00 pm.  Someone did libation 4 the ancestors, then someone else sung The Black National Anthem.  I sung along, it was emotional.  There were 125 vendors there.  Most of them were from West Africa.  Many of them were selling sculptures and clothes.  They were breath taking!!!  I seen a booty lady.  She wore a short shirt, I almost saw her ass.  I walked behind her to sneak a peak.  It made me so excited!!!!!!  I did Afro-Cuban and West African dancing under a tent.  I passed out my digits and/or my website to women.  Freddie Jackson was the last act.  I left while he was singing his 2nd song.    

Saturday
I went to the Natural Hair Expo.  There were many beautiful women there.  I gave my url to vendors.  I listened to 6 bloggers talk about blogging.  One of them is a digital marketer.  I gave her my info so she can help me.  I almost got a massage, but I forgot.  There was one booth 4 Black men.  That company created a shower gel that won't make you ashy.  I will buy sum in the near future.

I ubered to the family panic.  I met sum new faces.  I was sad because I was single and no one initiate conversation with me.  I got my dad to take a picture with his siblings.  I was going to take the picture on my phone, but my cousin told me not too.  She said she would take a pic on her phone and share it with me.  She lied!!!!!!  I will never let that happen again.  I met my other cousin husband and we talked about the universe, Vodou, shamanism, parapsychology, etc.  He was talking to my 2nd cousin about heavy stuff so I joined in.  There was ribs, green beans, turnip greens, potato salad, baked beans, mac & cheese, chicken, etc.  I ate it all.  I wanted to fix my mom a platt, but I was 2 late.  Never again will that happen.  I did the Cha-Cha Slide.

Sunday
This was the last day of the African World Festival.  I ate @ Starter's.  I had Much Macho and flavored (raspberry, peach, strawberry) lemonade.  My waitress had beautiful chocolate skin.  I told her she should be in a commercial, because she has a pretty face.  Then I bought coffee.  After that I went on a tour.  It rained during the tour, then it stopped.  The guide told us about sum of the history of Detroit.  I will write about it in my next post.  Once we got back I bought a bottle of water.  There was a honoring elders and ancestors event on the big stage.  I stayed for the first part.  One of the elders was a teacher @ Hampton Middle School.  I went to Hampton Elementary!!!  Her son went there too.  Next there was drummers and dancers on stage.  Sometimes that would be on stage together other times separately.  The next act was a reggae band.  I went to the Ghettotech section and got to gigabyting.  I bought my mom earrings and a necklace.  I wanted to buy a 37th African World Festival shirt, but was unable too.  I had to go inside because it was raining hard.  I went downstairs and listened to 2 women recite poems.  I talk to one of them, and texted her my url.

Past
@ the World African Festivals I went 2 b4 I danced on stage.  This time I didn't, because a lot of people wasn't up there.  Last year there was a dancing group from Botswana that danced on stage.  Libation is done @ every African World Festival and that's wonderful!!!!  Libation is when you pour out liquids for the deceased/ancestors.  I did more dancing @ past festivals and there were more people.  The African World Festival started in 1982.  I was born 1987!!!  That's amazing!!!!!  It would take place in Hart Plaza, until a decade ago.  I assume.  Now it is always @ Charles Wright Museum.

                                         

Austroasiatic

Introduction
This language family is in Southeast Asia, India, and China.  It was created over 4,000 years ago.  It has 2 main branches and 169 languages.  It has different scripts 4 writing.   Millions people speak these languages.  It has its own phonological and grammatical characteristics.

History
These languages is spoken by over 60 million people!  Most Austroasiatic speakers may have common ancestors 10,000 years ago in China.  They have ancestry with Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Hmong-Mien people 35,000 years ago!!!  They are more distantly related to Melanesians and (native) Americans.  Sum of them moved into India 10,000 years ago.   

2 Stems and Many Flowers
The stems are Munda and Mon-Khmer.  Munda has 22 languages and they were influenced by Indo-Aryan languages.  Mon-Khmer has 147 languages and it was influenced by Chinese languages.  The most popular Mon-khmer languages are Vietnamese and Khmer.  Khmer is spoken in Cambodia.  Munda languages are spoken in India and Bangladesh.  Sum of those languages are endangered because they don't have a lot of speakers.  These languages have many dialects.     

Phonological Characteristics
These languages has many vowels, but most don't have tones.  Sum vowels are said differently.  Most words are one sound.  There are constants @ the end of words.  Mon-Khmer languages have a 2 constant syllable in the beginning of sum of their words.  The words of these languages are rhythmic.  The Khmer language has 36 vowels!!!

Grammatical Characteristics
Munda languages have a complex morphology and Vietnamese doesn't have one @ all!  Most Austroasiatic languages have infixes, affixes, and prefixes.  These languages also have expressives.  They describe sensory perceptions and emotions.

The sentence structure 4 Mon-Khmer languages is subject-verb-object.  The sentence structure 4 Munda languages is subject-object-verb, because it was influenced by Dravidian languages.  There is no word 4 be in these languages.

Sum of the vocabulary of these languages were borrowed from other languages.  Examples: Vietnamese borrowed words from Mandarin.  Mon from Sanskrit and Khmer from Pali.  A lot of the original vocabulary was lost.  But, I think the Munda retained most of it.           

Scripts
There are 4 main alphabets 4 this language family.  They are Khmer, Thai, Lao, and Burmese.  They are many minor alphabets as well.  The Vietnamese script is based on the ancient Chinese writing.  There have been alphabets created using the Latin alphabet.   

Speakers
The Munda live in India and Bangladesh.  They weave and create baskets.  There religion is Sarnaism; it has a creator and earth goddess.  The Sal tree and sacred groves are important.  They mixed Sarnaism with Hinduism.   

The Khmer tribe rule Cambodia.  They created the first written language of Austroasiatic language family.  Most of them follow Theravada Buddhism.  They believe they came from a Brahmin and a celestial nymph.  They created an empire and Angkor Wat.

Mon people have the same ancestors as the Khmer.  Most of them live in Myanmar.  They founded ancient civilizations in Thailand and Laos.  The British helped the Mon people defeat the Burmen monarchy.  They want their own country.  There script is based on "Indic scripts".  They do spiritual dances and play many different instruments.

Nicobarese live on 19 island off the coast of Bengal.  They have their own form of shamanism and they like Christianity.  There are 3 spheres of life: sky, earth, and sea.  They know everything has a spirit.

There are many other Austroasiatic people, but this will suffice.     

Conclusion
The Austroasiatic language family is over 4,000 years old!  It is spoken by many people.  It is composed of 2 branches: Munda and Khmer-Mon.  It is the only language family I know of with expressive.  The languages have been influenced by Indian and Chinese languages.  They have created their own scripts 4 writing.  There are many different types of Austroasiatic people and they all are amazing!!!!

References
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/austro-asiatic-language-family/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Austroasiatic-languages#ref74991
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/austro-asiatic-language-family/
https://www.quora.com/Is-Sarnaism-different-from-Hinduism

International Taste Feast

Introduction
I ate over 6 different dishes from 9 different countries.   Most of the time I was there, kids danced on stage.  Three African men spoke about their countries and customs.  There were some strange occurrences.  I went last year as well.

Dishes 
Everyone got 8 free tickets for food or drink after they signed in.

Thai-I ate noodles, rice, vegetables, and chicken.  I added spicy and and sweet sauce.  I was the best meal!

Caribbean-Chicken, rice, beans, chickpeas, etc.  It was spicy.  This food was from 4 countries!!!  I also drunk sum juice.

Lebanese-Pita Bread, chicken, beef, vegetables, humus, and garlic sauce.

Mexican-Steak taco, rice & beans.  It was sweet.  Drunk a bottle of water as well.

Ethiopian-A meat and vegetable wrap.

Jamaican-Red beans and rice, cabbage, with meat (chicken or beef).

I enjoyed all the meals.

I didn't eat the U.S. food and Indian-Pakistani food.

Kids
There were a lot of kids there.  They got on stage and danced most of the time I was there.  They had a blast.  There was even a dance contest!  Good dancers got sum $ from a Moor!!!!!!  The best dancer was a gray girl  and she didn't get any $.
                     
Strange Occurrences
A young woman walked by me and rubbed her ass on my neck.  She said sorry, but I know she did on purpose.  I assume she was ovulating and wanted to impregnate her ( subconsciously of course).  I should got her #, but I wasn't thinking.  She's pretty and I've would enjoyed practicing baby making with her.     

                                                                    

A mentally ill lady got on stage while the kids were dancing and she twerked.  The DJ told her to stop because kids was there.  She stopped and tried to dance with the kids.  Then she danced by herself and got off stage.  This happened right b4 the dance contest.

                   
Last Year
I had most of the same dishes, but I had Soul food and Yemeni food (Lamb shanks, Yellow Rice, etc).  They didn't have that this year.  I also ate Indian-Pakistani food.  But, I didn't eat the the U.S. food.  They had more Carribean food this year.       

Hmong

Introduction
They have a long rich history.   The Hmong language is a member of Sino-Tibetan language family.  They have a wonderful and amazing culture.  A lot of Hmong people live in United States.  They had great success and face several challenges in the states.

History
Ancient: Their ancestors lived near the Yangtze River about 4500 years ago.  Their kingdom was taken over and they  became different tribes.  The members of the Han tribe called them the Jui Li and they had 9 clans.  They made clothes out of hemp.

The Han may have learned civilization from the Jui Li.  There were many battles between the Han and the Jui Li, but the Han won in the end and took over the land.  The Jui Li moved south to avoid them, but later on they had to fight them again.  Whenever the Han would defeat the Jui Li they would relocate.  That happened quite a bit.  It's like they were being bullied.

The Xia dynasty mistreated the Jui Li as well.  The Jui Li got along with the Shang dynasty, but were attacked by the Chou.  The Jui Li and the Han joined forces to defeat the Mongols during the Yuan dynasty.  After that, the Jui Li was mistreated again by the Ming dynasty.

Their society had an internal and external organizations.  The internal dealt with socioeconomic issues  and laws.  The external dealt with military, defense, and protection.  There was a religious organization that had drum festivals and they sacrificed buffalos.  They were swidden and rice farmers and bean growers.  They also had pigs, oxen, and chicken.               

Leaving China:  The Hmong were oppressed by Qing dynasty,  in response to this they rebelled a lot.  Qing massacred and enslaved a lot of Hmong people, so in the 19th century many of them left China and moved into Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar.  But, 2.7 million Hmong or more still live in China.         

Language
Their language is tonal.  This language is spoken by 4 million people!  Over 200,000 people speak it in the U.S.  There are various dialects of Hmong.  Red and Black Hmong is spoken by half of them.  The 2 that are spoken in the states is White and Green Hmong. The Hmong had written language in the past; but the Qing made it illegal for them to write it, because of that they forgot it after that.  In 1959 Shong Lue Yang created Pahawh.  It is a written language 4 Hmong.  Other scripts have been used for the them as well.  They were Chinese, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, and Russian.
                                         
Culture
Clans:  There are 18 of them.  A child is a member of their father's clan.  The clans provide 'legal authority, social support, and economic security.'  People in the same clan can't marry each other. 

Marriages: After women marry they become a part of their husband clan.  After she dies she is worshipped by her husband's children.  They have arranged marriages, but b4 someone get married they can have sex with whoever they like.  That's amazing!!!!!!  Men marry women when they get them pregnant.  A groom family give the bride family animals and silver.  It's called a dowry.  Women should never be objectified!!!!!!  Most people get married when they're teenagers.  Most of them are monogamous, but sum are polygamous.  They big on polygeny.  If the husband dies the wife is married off to his oldest brother; if he don't want her another clan member marries her.  The wedding takes place in the bride's house and than the groom's house.  Sometimes women are kidnapped and forced into marriage, but not a lot.         

Funeral: When someone dies their soul breaks up into 3 parts.  One part says in the grave, one part protects the home, and another part joins the ancestors.  The deceased are cremated and the funeral last 3 days.  Men from the deceased household go to the funeral.  Songs help the guide the spirit to the to the afterlife.  13 days after the person died a ceremony is held so that soul can protect the house.   

Gender Roles:  Women take care of all the household duties and farming taks.  Men have farming tasks as well.  The mother-in-law tells the wife what to do.  The life of a wife can be tough.  Men tend to get drunk and smoke opium.  Some women encourage their husbands to get another wife, so they can help with the duties.  The women are great making textiles and clothes!!!

Family: Most households have 11 people in them.  In Laos a son moves out when he is married.  In other countries son stay in the house until they are financially stable.  Fathers help raise the children.  Kids help out in farming.  Boys are taught hunting and customs.  Girls are taught weaving, singing, and more by their moms.  The Hmong don't go to school in Southeast Asia.   

Shamanism: Hmong spiritual practices are similar to the Siberians.  Shamans cure people of illnesses caused by spirits.  They do this by going into a trance.  They have a magickal horse they can ride.  There is a leader to upper world that shaman can climb.  Their chants help them get cures from spirits in the upper world.  Shamans make sure a spirits of the deceased don't become evil.  Spirits of the deceased can aid in curing diseases. 

Art:  The women make great textiles.  Sum of which are called story cloths. 

Music: Many of their songs have poetry in it.  The have possession songs, weeping songs, invocation songs, invitation songs, wishing songs, and storytelling songs.  They also have love songs, bride songs, wedding songs, orhapan songs, and separation songs.  The bride's song is about her sadness of leaving her family after marriage.  Sum their musical instruments are reed pipes, jaw harps, and banana leaves.

Clothing: Different clans wear different colored clothes.  The Black Hmong wear hemp clothing that has indigo dye on it.  The Flower Hmong wear bright colors.  The Hmong have embroidered patterns that remind me of Adinkra symbols!!!!

Festivals:  New Year-They wear traditional clothing; and they sing, dance, bull fight, and eat traditional food.  Girls and boys play a ball game.  Spirits of wealth and the home are venerated.  This celebration last 4 three days.  Each day there are 10 different dishes.  This is a great holiday!!!!!!!!!

Cuisine: There food has a lot of herbs and spices.  They eat meat, vegetables, and rice.  They love hot sauce!!!!  My people do too.  They make deserts 4 special occasions and their food is healthy. 

Hmong in the U.S. (include challenges)
Over 200,000 of them live in the U.S.  They were least Westernized Southeast Asian refugees, but they may be the most successful!  They were illiterate when they got to the U.S., now they are professors, doctors, and lawyers.  They own many restaurants in Michigan, farms in Southern U.S., music studios, malls, etc.

Sum Hmong still practice their old traditions, which sometimes lead to legal problems.  Some shamans practice rituals @ the hospital 4 Hmong patients.  The Hmong don't like surgery, blood transfusion, and anesthesia because it goes against their beliefs.  Hmong hunters and white hunters clashed in the past.

Some of them were impoverished and engaged in gang warfare.  Some of them became homicidal and/or suicidal.  They have most mental illness among Southeast Asians in the U.S.  This is because they came from a very traditional society.       

Conclusion
I love Hmong!!!!!  They have a rich history and a complex culture.  They have become very successful in the U.S.  There problems in the states come from culture shock and lack of economic opportunities. 

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/hmong.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_Americans
https://www.yourclassical.org/story/2015/03/01/10-things-hmong
http://www.hmongculture.net/
https://www.pbs.org/splithorn/shamanism1.html
https://www.everyculture.com/multi/Ha-La/Hmong-Americans.html
http://hmongstudies.org/GYLeeHSJ8.pdf
A History of the Hmong
http://factsanddetails.com/asian/cat66/sub417/item2744.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_music
https://com207-hmong.weebly.com/cuisine.html
https://shrdo.com/hmong-18-clans-system-and-what-it-means-in-hmong-community/
http://factsanddetails.com/asian/cat66/sub417/item2742.html
http://hmongstudies.org/LeeHSJ14.pdf

Australian Language Families

Introduction
These languages were created in Australia by a group of people commonly called Aborigines.  But, I call them Australians because they were the first people in Australia.  There are over 300 Australian languages in 28 different language families.  Tasmanians used to exist.  They had their own languages.  Torres Strait Islanders have their own language as well.   

Languages
I will list sum of the languages.  They are as followed: Luritja, Warlpiri, Tiwi, Pintupi, Maung, Burrara, Kija, Bardi, etc.  Luritja speakers are great artists!  Warlpiri has 6 vowels and all the words end in vowels.  A word in Tiwi can be a sentence in English and it has 11 verbal categories.  Pintupi is taught in schools and has 17 consonants.  Maung is also taught in school.  Burrara has several dialects.  Kija is spoken by 100 people.  Bardi as less than 10 speakers.  Australian languages are spoken by over 40,000 people.                 

Families
There are 35 language families of Australian languages.  I will list some:  Wardaman, Jarrakan, Greater Pam-Nyungan, Daly.  etc.  Wardaman language is unrelated to other Australian languages and 50 people speak it.  Jarakkan consists of Kija, Miriwoong, and Gajirrabeng.  Gajirrabeng only has 3 or 4 speakers.  Greater Pam-Nyungan is the biggest language family in Australia.  It has 300 languages.  Daly is a group of language families spoken by Daly River.     

Tasmanian Languages
These languages were spoken by Tasmanians.  They no longer exist, because they were wiped out by English.  There may have been 4 language families in Tasmania.  Tasmania a Island off the coast of Australia.   

Torrest Strait Island Languages
There are 2 languages and 6 dialects on this island.  One of the languages is named Meriam Mer.  It is similar to Melanesian languages.  This language has 2 dialects.  The other language spoken there is Kala Lagaw Ya; it has 4 dialects.  It is related to Australian languages.  The people of this island are Melanesian.  They have been influenced by Paupuan, Austronesian, and Australian peoples. 

Conclusion
Australian languages are amazing!!!  There are so many of them and quite a few language families.  Tasmanians were Australian people that lived in Tasmania.  They had their own languages, which had a lot of diversity.  Torrest Strait Island languages are spoken by Melanesian people that live on/near Australia.         

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages
http://theconversation.com/the-origins-of-pama-nyungan-australias-largest-family-of-aboriginal-languages-92997
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/why-australia-home-one-largest-language-families-world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_languages
https://www.tstlanguages.org/our-languages
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/28/c_137071282.htm

Paranormal Encounters

Introduction
I had several paranormal experiences growing up.  When I was 10 a UFO flew over my house.  I've seen a red orb in the living room when I was 12.  I saw a small red dragon over my bed when I was 19.  I had dreams that came true: pissing and microwave explosion.  I dreamed about people close to me after they died.  I had odd experiences when I slept in the bed with nephew.

UFO
The UFO that flew over my house was a black triangle with 3 white circles under it.  It's called the TR3B.  It has a nuclear reactor 4 a engine.  A soldier told me it was a classified military plane.  The government reverse engineers alien technology.  I assume that is what's going on @ Area 51.  I read the F-117 and B-2 has reverse-engineered alien technology on it.

Orbs
After I seen the orb it vanished right after I saw it.  I told my father about it; he thought it was ball lightning.  Orbs may be spirits.  In Shamanic Healing Class I held spirit spheres.  B4 I sent a ghost into the blessing field I would get someone they loved.  Then I would ask them to form into a ball and come into my hands.  Maybe sum orbs are ghosts or a group of ghosts.  Sometimes people don't see them, but they are captured on camera. 

Interdimensional Entities
There are beings that exist in other dimensions.  The dragon I saw may have been one of them.  The funny thing is my favorite animal spirit is a red fire dragon.  Reality is like a onion, there are many layers.  There are sum places on earth that are portals to other dimensions, such as Bermuda Triangle.    The Mist is a movie and later a show that deals with interdimensional entities.  Scientists created a portal to another dimension; then animals from that dimension came through and attacked people.  There is a show on Netflix called Stranger Things that has beings from a shadow mirror world.  There is a lot of media that deals with interdimensional entities.  Cern may be able to create portals to other dimensions.  The D-Wave computer connects to other universes.   

Dreams
When I was 5 I had a dream where I peed on myself.  Than I got up and used the restroom.  I also had a dream I blew up the microwave.  After I woke up I asked my brother to heat up sum pizza.  He was sleeping and wouldn't get up.  So, I tried to heat up the pizza in the microwave.  I pushed a bunch of buttons and it blew up.  That's weird because I ate cold pizza when I was a kid.  After my grandpa died, I had a dream he was @ the Family Reunion banquet.  He wore a blue suit or a blue sports coat.  After my brothers' friend Jeff died, I dreamed about him.  He sat on a bed and he was in good shape.  I take it to mean he is happy in the spirit world.  I also a had dream about my eldest brother James after he died.  He was also happy in the dream.  One time I was sleeping next to my nephew and dreamed we were aliens on a spaceship.  We had pink skin and looked reptoid.  I thought it was a past life.  Another time I slept next to my nephew I almost had an Out of Body experience.  My body vibrated, then I got scared so it didn't happen.  I had a dream I was in a parallel earth.  I saw bigfoot and it was covered in white fur.  I saw a giant lady bug covered in white fur.  I called them both furries.

Conclusion
The paranormal (ghosts, aliens, and cryptozoology) exist.  We were more familiar with it in the past because we were more spiritual.  Since we turned our back on nature, we are less spiritual.  So, we see the paranormal as weird and scary.  In the past it was simply a natural part of life.

References
https://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/Ghost_Orbs_Different_Colors
https://www.strangerdimensions.com/tag/interdimensional-beings/
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/05/strange-tales-of-portals-to-other-dimensions/
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