Wiradjuri

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/wɪˈraːd͡ʒuriː/

noun

An indigenous people of Australia who live in a large area of New South Wales west of the Blue Mountains.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounWiradjuri pl (plural only)

alternative Wiradhuri · alternative Waradgeri · alternative Waradgery · alternative Wiradhari · alternative Wiradhurri · alternative Wiradthuri · alternative Wiradyuri · alternative Wiragere · alternative Wiraiari · alternative Wirradgerry · alternative Wirradhuri · alternative Wirradhurri · alternative Wirratherie · alternative Wirrathuri · alternative Wooragurie · alternative Woradgery

  1. pluralplural onlyAn indigenous people of Australia who live in a large area of New South Wales west of the Blue Mountains.
    1 more example

    The tribes who attended the Būrbŭng described in this paper were some of those belonging to the Wiradthuri community, which in former times was both numerous and important, occupying a wide tract of country in the interior of New South Wales, extending from somewhere about the Murray River northerly nearly to the Barwan river, where they were joined by the great Kamilaroi tribes.

    1896, R. H. Mathews, “The Būrbŭng of the Wiradthuri Tribes”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 25
proper noun

alternative Wiradhuri · alternative Waradgeri · alternative Waradgery · alternative Wiradhari · alternative Wiradhurri · alternative Wiradthuri · alternative Wiradyuri · alternative Wiragere · alternative Wiraiari · alternative Wirradgerry · alternative Wirradhuri · alternative Wirradhurri · alternative Wirratherie · alternative Wirrathuri · alternative Wooragurie · alternative Woradgery

  1. The Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken by the Wiradjuri.

    We can recognise Wiradhurri and Ngiyambaa as constituting a branch within the subgroup, [...]

    2002, R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development
    3 more examples

    Mr. Günther’s and Mr. Watson’s treat of the same language, the Wīrādhurri, or, as some aborigines pronounce it, Wīrāgĕrĕ, a language spoken over a wide extent of country, from the Upper Namoi, the Castlereagh and Liverpool Plains in the north and east, to the Bawun or Darling west, and the Lachlan in the south. [...] I suppose this “Northerumberland dialect” was not spoken over more than one-fiftieth of the extent of country over which Wiradhuri or Kamilaroi is known.

    1873, William Ridley, “Australian Languages and Traditions”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2

    The Wirradhuri dialect, or as I call it, the Wirádhari, covers the whole heart of N. S. Wales; [...]

    1892, John Fraser, An Australian Language

    The native tribes speaking the Wiradyuri language occupy an immense region in the central and southern portions of New South Wales.

    1904, R. H. Mathews, “The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 34

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