Wiradjurin.adj.
/wəˈradʒəri/ A. n.
1. (A member of) an Australian Aboriginal people inhabiting western and central areas of New South Wales.
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Kamilaroi1856
Wiradjuri1884
Aranda1891
Tiwi1930
Pintupi1933
Kurnai1965
1884 A. L. P. Cameron in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 346 In speaking of a Wonghi black to one of the Wathi-Wathi tribe, who had referred to him as a Wiradjeri—I said, ‘He is not Wiradjeri, he is Wonghi,’ and my friend replied, ‘It is all the same, only they talk a little different.’
1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 68/2 Among the now almost extinct Yaralde of the lower River Murray, and the Wiradjuri of western New South Wales..the native doctor not only practises ‘black’ magic..but may also be an oracle of his group.
2. The language of this people; more generally, a group of Aboriginal languages spoken in central and western New South Wales and southern central areas of Queensland.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Australian Aboriginal > [noun] > Australian languages
Kamilaroi1856
Wiradjuri1894
Dyirbal1910
Tiwi1930
Murngin1931
Pintupi1933
Nyungar1939
Aranda1956
Kurnai1965
1894 A. F. Calvert Aborigines W. Austral. 4 There are many different dialects of which the following may be said to be the most important:—..Waradgeri.—On the Murrumbidgee and Lauchlan.
1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 742/2 In Wiradjuri, the possessive pronouns appear as suffixes attached to their appropriate nouns.
B. adj.
Of or relating to this people, their language, or the group to which it belongs.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Australian Aboriginal > [adjective]
Wiradjuri1884
Nyungar1896
Pitta-Pitta1898
Dyirbal1901
Pama-Nyungan1966
Anangu1983
the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective] > specific peoples
Wiradjuri1884
Pitta-Pitta1886
Aranda1896
Dyirbal1910
Kurnai1911
Pintupi1933
Tasmanoid1938
1884 A. L. P. Cameron in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 346 Wiradjeri blackfellows say ‘Wira’ for No! and Wonghi blackfellows say ‘Wonghi’, but they are all friends.
1904 A. W. Howitt Native Tribes S.-E. Austral. v. 210 Among the southern Wiradjuri, girls are promised by their fathers to the sons of other men, the children being very young.
1972 Linguistics lxxxvii. 21 The Wiradjuri language was one of the widespread languages of New Wales [sic], occupying the Murrumbidgee basin almost from the Victorian border till it met Kamilaroi on the north.
1990 Times 18 June 3/3 Two of the skulls were returned by Peterborough city museum and Bradford university. One is from North Queensland and the other from the Wiradjeri tribe in New South Wales.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.adj.1884