Editing Guugu Yimithirr language (section)

==History==
[[Image:Captainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|right|Captain James Cook]]
In 1770, Guugu Yimithirr became the first Australian Aboriginal language to be written down when [[Lieutenant]] (later [[Captain (naval)|Captain]]) [[James Cook]] and his crew recorded words while their ship, the [[HM Bark Endeavour|HM Bark ''Endeavour'']], was being repaired after having run aground on a shoal of the [[Great Barrier Reef]]. [[Joseph Banks]] described the language as "totally different from that of the Islanders; it sounded more like English in its degree of harshness though it could not be {{not a typo|called}} harsh neither {{sic}}".

Among the words recorded were ''{{Not a typo|{{lang|kky|kangooroo}}}}'' or ''{{Not a typo|{{lang|kky|kanguru}}}}'' ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPA|/ɡaŋuru/}}), meaning a large black or grey [[kangaroo]], which would become the general English term for all kangaroos, and {{Lang|kky|dhigul}} (transcribed by Banks as ''Je-Quoll''), the name of the [[quoll]].

[[Sydney Parkinson]], who accompanied Cook, gave a useful word list in his posthumously published journal, ''[[A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/parkinson/191.html|title=Parkinson's Journal, New Holland, page 191|publisher=Southseas.nla.gov.au|access-date=2015-08-15}}</ref>