Ngunnawal language

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Ngunnawal
Gundungurra
Onerwal
Northern Inland Yuin
Region New South Wales & ACT, Australia
Ethnicity Ngunnawal people, Gandangara people
Extinct (date missing)[1]
Dialects
Ngunawal
Gundungurra
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
xul – Ngunawal
xrd – Gundungurra
Glottolog nort2760[2]
AIATSIS[3] D3 Ngunawal, S60 Gundungurra

Ngunnawal or Gundungurra is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngunnawal and Gandangara peoples. There are contradictory claims as to whether they are one language or two. The name Burragorang is applied to either.

Classification

Ngunawal is generally classified with the Ngarigo language of the limestone plains of Monaro (Maneroo) in New South Wales to the Australian Capital Territory across the Monaro tableland through to the Australian Alps of New South Wales and Victoria Snowy Mountains. They fall within the tentative (and perhaps geographic) Yuin–Kuric group of the Pama–Nyungan family.[4]

Ngunnawal words

Ngunnawal words and phrases and English translations
Ngunnawal English Ref.
Balbo Kangaroo rat [5]
Bamir Long [6]
Bargang Yellow box [7][8]
Berra Boomerang [9]
Bimbi Bird [8]
Bimbiang Shield [10]
Bindugan Mussel [11]
Birrigai To laugh [12][13]
Budyan Birds [14]
Bunburung Small lizard [15]
Bunduluk Rosella [16]
Bunima Blow (as wind) [11]
Burrai Quick [17]
Burrum-bah Where the kangaroo, the wallaby, bounces over the rocks [18]
Bural Day [19]
Burin Stringybark [20]
Dhangarn Food [21]
Daramoolen Dreaming [11]
Darwa A transition for ceremony [18]
Dulwa Casuarina trees [8]
Dyindan Ring-tail possum [11]
Galu Crane [22]
Gamburra Flowers [23]
Gang-gang Gang-gang cockatoo [24][25]
Giliruk pee wee [26]
Ginninderra Sparkling light [27]
Ginin-ginin-derry Sparkling, throwing out little rays of light
(possibly a description of a waterfall)		 [28]
Gubbity Pipeclay [11]
Gubur Dhaura Red ochre ground [29]
Gudali To hunt [30]
Guginya Kookaburra [30]
Gula Koala [30]
Gulwan Younger sister [11]
Gummiuk Bulrushes [8]
Gunyan Slow [31]
Jedbinbilla A place where boys become men [12][18][32]
Gurubun Koala [33]
Kubbadang Moon [11]
Karrugang Magpie [34]
Kudyera Fighting club [35]
Madi Very [11]
Mulleun Eagle [36]
Mulunggang Platypus [37]
Mundang Canoe [38]
Mundawari Bandicoot [39]
Munjuwa Tracks, Foot [11]
Mura Pathway [30][40]
Mura gadi Pathways for searching [41]
Murra Bidgee Mullangari Keeping the pathway to our ancestors alive [42]
Murrung Lizard [43]
Nangi To see or look [44]
Narragunnawali Alive/well-being/coming together [45]
Nengi Bamir See far (view) [8]
Ngadyung Water [38]
Ngunna yerrabi yanggu You’re welcome to leave your footprints on our land [46]
Nguru Camp [38]
Pajong Ngunnawal clan group [11]
Tuggeranong Cold place [47]
Umbagong Axe [48][49]
Walga Hawk [50]
Wallabalooa Ngunnawal clan group [11]
Warabin Curlew [51]
Wark Crow [18]
Warrumbul Youth [52]
Weereewa Lake George
(translates roughly to 'bad water')		 [18][53][54]
Wimbaliri Drink [11]
Winnunga nimmityjah Strong health [55]
Winyu Sun [56]
Wirria Tree goanna [57]
Woggabaliri Play [58]
Yarrh Running water [59]
Yeal-am-bid-gie Molonglo River [60]
Yerra Swim,[8] to fly like a bird[61]
Yerrabi To walk [62]
Yerradhang Eucalypt tree [11]
Yumba Eel [63]
Yuyu Mopoke [11]

More words are compiled online in The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales,[25] an article by Robert H. Mathews first published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1904.

The word Gungahlin is a possible ngunnawal word. Gungahlin is the 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'.[64]

References

  1. ↑ Ngunawal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Gundungurra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  3. ↑ Ngunawal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
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