my belly is angry, my throat is in love — how body parts express emotions in Indigenous languages
- Written by Maïa Ponsonnet, Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
Nikki Short/AAPMany languages in the world allude to body parts to describe emotions and feelings, as in “broken-heart”, for instance. While some have just a few expressions like this, Australian Indigenous languages tend use a lot of them, covering many parts of the body: from “flowing belly” for “feel good” to...





