How do you say hello in Ngunnawal?
Yumalundi means Hello in the Ngunnawal language. The Ngunnawal people are the traditional owners of the Canberra region.
What does Ngunnawal mean in English?
Tuggeranong, ACT A Ngunnawal expression meaning ‘cold place’.
Is Ngunnawal still spoken?
There are no known fluent speakers of the Ngunnawal language, but Aboriginal elders and their families have spent the past four years working closely with linguists to revitalise it.
How do you say goodbye in Ngunnawal language?
Some Ngunnawal words you’ll hear on ABC Radio Canberra:
- Yuumma = hello.
- Wannggirali = listen.
- Ma dji nhu = you.
- Wuradji = from.
- Yerrabi = let’s go/goodbye.
What language do Aborigines speak Canberra?
Ngunawal or Ngunnawal (both spellings are used) is the Indigenous Australian language of the traditional occupants of the area now known as Canberra. It is also closely related to other local and nearby Indigenous Australian languages such as Ngambri, Ngarigo/Ngarigu, Gundungurra and Wiradjuri.
What is Ngunnawal country?
Canberra is Ngunnawal country. The Ngunnawal are the Indigenous people of this region and its first inhabitants. The neighbouring people are the Gundungurra to the north, the Ngarigo to the south, the Yuin on the coast, and the Wiradjuri inland. It is a harsh climate and difficult country for hunter-gatherer people.
How do you say hello in palawa Kani?
tahwattya’. The ‘yah’ part is indeed a greeting, spelt in palawa kani as ‘ya’ (hello).
What is Narrm?
Narrm is the Aboriginal name for Melbourne which comes from the Woi Wurrung language, spoken by the traditional owners of the city and its surrounds.
How many family clans are there from Ngunnawal country?
Within the Ngunnawal tribe there are known to be seven clans who lived in fairly specific localities.
How do the Ngunnawal people live?
As traditional custodians of this land, the Ngunnawal people have lived and gathered in the valley and its surrounding mountains since time immemorial. Ngunnawal people maintained and used the valley for various purposes such as a gathering place and a place to source food including the migratory bogong moths.
What does Bunjil mean?
Bunjil is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle in Australian Aboriginal mythology of some of the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria.
What is Lutruwita?
lutruwita Tasmania One of these, lutruwita is recorded solely as ‘name of great island of VDLand’. Robinson spelt it as ‘Loe. trou. witter’. The other word – truwana – is recorded as ‘the great island of VDLand’ and also as ‘Cape Barren Island’.
What does Kanaplila Nayri mean in palawa kani language?
the good dance
And an adult female name, Kanaplila Nayri. That means, ‘the good dance’ in Palawa Kani.” Penelope’s middle name means ‘platypus’ but she also really loves lizards.
Is Ngunnawal a language or dialect of another language?
As such they can be considered dialects of a single unnamed language, but this is the technical linguistic usage of these terms and Ngunnawal people prefer to describe their variety as a language in its own right, as also do the Gandangara.
What is the meaning of Ngunawal words?
Some meanings for Ngunawal words: Kamberra – where the name Canberra may have come from, said to mean ‘meeting place’ for big Bogong moths. Tuggeranong, a district of Canberra, comes from the Ngarigo/Ngarigu word. Ginninderra – is also a Ngarigo.
Where did the Ngunnawal live?
The traditional country of the Ngunnawal is generally thought to have extended from near Goulburn, west to Boorowa, south through Canberra, perhaps to Queanbeyan, and extending west to around the Goodradigbee River.
What is Ngunawal/Gundungurra?
Gundungurra/Ngunawal is generally classified to fall within the tentative (and perhaps geographic) Yuin–Kuric group of the Pama–Nyungan family.