Talk:Torres Strait Islanders

message: Firstly, I'm not sure what 'Melanesian culture' means (not much, I think!). Secondly, TSI fall into two groups. The western Torres Strait Islanders are closely related to Australian Aboriginal people, at least linguistically--their language is a member of the Pama-Nyungan family of languages which covers most of the Australian mainland. The eastern TS language (one spelling of which is Meriam Mer) is related to the languages of the nearby PNG coast.
Nevertheless, it is true that the TSI people do consider themselves as a group to be distinct from Aboriginal people of the mainland.
Dougg 05:10, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You know Melanesian is linked to an article. Wonderful thing, this Wikipedia. Kortoso (talk) 18:04, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Torres Strait Islanders

message: As this article is supposed to be about Torres Straits Islanders we should probably shift the languages info off to separate articles. That won't leave much in this article but maybe whoever added the more detailed language info (with example sentences) can help fill it out? BTW, I'm interested to know what the source was for this info, I hadn't heard previously that there was much Austronesian influence on KLY/KKY/etc Dougg 07:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Also tagged for a merge -> Torres Strait Islands, a much less stubby article.  Though now that I think about it a bit more, perhaps Torres Strait Island languages should be merged into Torres Strait Islands as well? Regards, Ben Aveling 06:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Languages to their own pages?

message: If anyone is based at a university the following publications look like they would be useful: 
  
--WikiTownsvillian 10:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: research resources

message: Is anyone familiar with any actual Torres Strait islander editors on WP? Just wondering, first I need to ask some questions about TSI culture, and secondly this page is of insufficient quality for it's importance. --Mattbray 07:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TSI Editors? 

message: Why no category for Torres Strait Islanders, who like Eddie Mabo seem to be classed under Indigenous Australians (he is subcategory Activist)?  There are more of them than of Indigenous Tasmanians. Should the category be called just Torres Strait Islanders? Hugo999 (talk) 01:13, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A category for Torres Strait Islanders 

message: Citation 6 here is a broken link, does the page still exist?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.217.255.231 (talk) 15:18, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link in references 

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message: This article needs a better photo for the infobox, the one at the moment is shockingly low quality and old. However, I couldn't find a free image that I was comfortable using. If anyone can take one that would be great. Poketama (talk) 12:14, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Why torres strait islander does exist as an official part of an indigenous australians despite having large population difference to aboriginal australian? 2404:8000:1027:2C72:C9DD:4AD7:1341:B631 (talk) 02:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exist?