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The Wiradjuri language had effectively died out of everyday spoken use, but has recently been reclaimed from early European anthropologist's records and from words contributed by several Wiradjuri families, by elder Stan Grant, a member of the Wiradjuri Elder's Council, and John Rudder Ph. D., who has previously studied Australian Aboriginal languages in Arnhem Land.
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Wiradjuri and language
The Wiradjuri people () or Wirraayjuurray people () are a group of indigenous people of Australian Aborigines that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter – fisher – gatherers in family groups or clans scattered throughout central New South Wales.
* Stan Grant, a Wiradjuri elder, has been working on the reconstruction of the language.
Some of the dialogue in this story is in the Wiradjuri language.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology Baiame ( Baayami or Baayama ) was the Creator God and Sky Father in the dreaming of several language groups ( e. g. Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri ), of Indigenous Australians of south-east Australia.
The original Aboriginal inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people and the term " Wagga " and derivatives of that word in the Wiradjuri aboriginal language is thought to mean crow.
In Australia, an oxbow lake is called a billabong, derived from Wiradjuri, an indigenous language.
Sources claim that the name is aboriginal for " rocks ", although the local Wiradjuri language has no words for " rocks ".
The name Gang-gang comes from a New South Wales Aboriginal language, either Ngunnawal or Wiradjuri.
From 1993 to 2010, Rudder was heavily involved, with Stan Grant, an elder of the Wiradjuri people, in reclaiming the Wiradjuri language that was at that time effectively dead, even though this is arguably the biggest tribe in New South Wales.
He took anthropological studies and records amounting to the records of fewer than 2, 000 words and applied the language and cognitive analysis he had previously applied to the Yolngu language, to begin to reconstruct the Wiradjuri language.
With Grant, who provided a sense of the language remembered from his youth in World War II among Wiradjuri-speaking family and tribal members, notably his grandfather, they have established training sessions to teach the language across Wiradjuri country.
Intensive weekend camps, workshops, and other sessions have seen a growing number of Wiradjuri speakers who are beginning to re-establish the language.
Secondary effects of the cultural use of the Wiradjuri language are being felt within the language group, and beyond.
In July 2006, the Parkes Shire Library ( central west NSW ) inaugurated its collection of books on Wiradjuri attended by Wiradjuri language students from Primary schools at Forbes, Peak Hill and Central West Christian School, whose teachers were learning from Rudder and Grant.
* Wiradjuri language
Wiradjuri and use
* use of Wiradjuri words in communities, and in Australian usage
Wiradjuri and has
The Wiradjuri tribal area has been described as " the land of the three rivers, the Wambool later known as the Macquarie, the Kalare later known as the Lachlan and the Murrumbidgee ( Murrumbidjeri ).
It has lots of aircraft passing overhead on their way from Sydney to Adelaide, is part of the Lachlan Fold system and is Wiradjuri country.
The Wiradjuri tribal area has been described as " the land of the three rivers, the Wambool later known as the Macquarie, the Kalare later known as the Lachlan and the Murrumbidgee ( Murrumbidjeri ).
John Rudder, Ph. D., has studied the Australian Aboriginal languages, of Arnhem Land ( Gupapuyngu ) in the Northern Territory and the state of New South Wales ( Wiradjuri ), Australia.
His recent writing has been extensively in collaboration with Stan Grant ( Wiradjuri elder ).
There has been some conflict between protesters and mining workers over the mining activity taking place on Wiradjuri land.
Wiradjuri and been
The story prominently features various concepts in Wiradjuri folklore and tradition, such as the ngurupal: this is an area within the tribal territory which is a public assembly space for adult male Wiradjuri who have been formally initiated into manhood, yet which is forbidden ground for females or uninitiated males.
Prior to European settlement the area is thought to have been occupied by the Wiradjuri or Gandangara Indigenous Australians.
The area around the present township appears to have been a site of interaction between the Nari-Nari people of the Lower Murrumbidgee and the Wiradjuri who inhabited a vast region in the central-western inland of New South Wales.
Wiradjuri and from
The Wiradjuri diet included yabbies and fish such as Murray cod from the rivers.
The Wiradjuri were also known for their handsome possum-skin cloaks stitched together from several possum furs.
The name of the town of Wagga Wagga comes from the Wiradjuri word Wagga meaning crow, and to create the plural, the Wiradjuri repeat the word.
Jessica's best friend ( Mary Simpson ) was from Wiradjuri.
Booroogong and garoogong were Wiradjuri words, and carrak was a Jardwadjali term from Victoria.
The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, and is onomatopoeic of its call.
The word is most likely derived from the indigenous Wiradjuri term bilabaŋ, which means " a watercourse that runs only after rain " and is derived from " bila ", meaning " river ", and possibly " bong " or " bung ", meaning " dead ".
The name Mudgee is derived from the Wiradjuri term Moothi meaning " Nest in the Hills " or " mou-gee " meaning " contented ".
In the leadup to the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney, Isobell Coe from the Wiradjuri Nation set up a Peace Camp and combined ashes from Canberra's sacred fire to the fire at Victoria Park in Camperdown to promote reconciliation.
The name Narrandera is probably derived from Wiradjuri nharrang, meaning " frill-necked lizard ".
The name ' Gulgong ' is derived from the name used by the traditional inhabitants, the Wiradjuri, for ' deep waterhole '.
The name Tumbarumba may be derived from Wiradjuri dhamba dhamba, meaning " very soft " or alternatively from the Aboriginal words for " hollow sounding ground ", " thunder ", " sound " or " place of big trees ".
Wiradjuri and early
Local Wiradjuri groups under leaders such as Windradyne resisted the settlers until the Frontier Wars of the early 1820s ended the open conflict.
Wiradjuri and European
Prior to European settlement of Australia the region of Blackheath and surrounding areas were thought to be a summer corroberee meeting place for several Aboriginal nations, these being Darug ( East ), Gundungurra ( South ) and Wiradjuri ( West ).
Before European settlement the Harden area was inhabited by the Wiradjuri people.
The European settlers were soon in conflict with the Wiradjuri over a range of issues including killing of livestock and animals such as kangaroos and possums which were major food sources for the Wiradjuri.
The area was occupied by the Wiradjuri people prior to European settlement.
The Wiradjuri people are the traditional owners of the local area prior to European settlement.
He was the first European to record meeting with the Wiradjuri people of the region.
Prior to European settlement, the Caperteee district was occupied by the Wiradjuri people.
Prior to European settlement the Grenfell area was home to the Wiradjuri Aborigines.
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