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Everything about Ngunnawal Language totally explained
Ngunnawal or Ngunawal is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngunawal people.
Classification
Ngunawal is currently classified as a sub-tribe of the larger Ngarigu/Ngarigo/dialect area that covers the limestone plains of Monaro/Maneroo in NSW to ACT across the Monaro tableland through to the Australian Alps of NSW/VIC snowy mountain ranges.
Prominent place names
Some meanings for Ngunawal words:
Other Ngarigo/Ngarigu words
Mura Gadi means 'pathways for searching' (External Link ). Gadi by itself means 'searching for', (External Link) the Gadi Research Centre at the University of Canberra with this name.
Bimbi - Bird
Nengi Bamir - See far (View)
Dulwa - Casurina trees
Bargang - Melliodora trees
Yerra - swim
Gummiuk - bulrushes
Ngadyung - water
Nguru - camp
Mundang - canoe (External Link) (External Link) (pdf format)
Weereewa - Lake George (External Link)
Several Ngunawal sub-tribe words of Ngarigo/Ngarigu were used as street names in the suburb of Ngunnawal area (External Link) such as:
Other explanations for street names in Ngunawal sub-tribe Ngarigo language listed by the ACT planning and land authority (External Link):
- Bargang - yellow box
- Bimbiang - shield
- Birrigai - to laugh
- Budyan - birds
- Bunburung - small lizard
- Burin - stringy bark
- Burrai - quick
- Bunduluk - rosella
- Berra - boomerang
- Bamir - long
- Balbo - kangaroo rat
- Bural - day
- Gamburra - flowers
- Giliruk - pee wee
- Gunyan - slow
- Gurubun - koala
- Karrugang - magpie
- Kudyera - fighting club
- Mirrabei - the name for tribal elder Matilda Sissy Williams (died 1973)
- Mulleun - eagle
- Murrung - lizard
- Mundawari - bandicoot
- Nangi - see or look
- Walga - hawk
- Warabin - curlew
- Warrumbul - youth
- Wirria - tree goanna
- Yerra - to fly like a bird
- Yerrabi - to walk
- Yumba - eel
Narragunnawali - means 'alive/well-being/ coming together' as used in the Peace Park near the National Library. (External Link)
winyu - sun (External Link)
umbagong - axe (External Link) Umbagong district park in Belconnen was named after this.
Possible Ngunawal words
gang-gang - name for a 'small black cockatoo' (possibly the only non-locality Ngunawal word in current use - for the Gang-gang Cockatoo, although the word is claimed as being of Wiradhuri origin by another source.) (External Link)
Gungahlin - name for a district in Canberra, which gets its name from the homestead built in 1862 by Edward Crace called 'Goongarline', which is said to be an aboriginal word for 'white man's house', or mean 'wonderful' or 'beautiful'. (External Link)
Yhar - running water (town of Yass named after this, where many Ngunawal people had camped.) (External Link)
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