Dhudhuroa people

The Dhudhuroa people (or Duduroa) were an Indigenous Australian people of North-eastern Victoria,[1] in the state of Victoria, Australia.

Name

The endonym Dhudhuroa has been analysed as being composed of the initial syllable dhu- of their word for 'no' (dhubalga) and a form of the word for 'mouth' (wurru).[2]

Language

Dhudhuroa has been classified as belonging to the Gippsland branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family.[3] Robert M. W. Dixon classifies it, with Pallanganmiddang, as one of the 2 languages comprising an Upper Murray Group.[4] Lexicostatistical analysis however shows that it something of a language isolate within neighbouring languages, with which it shares no more than 11-16% of common vocabulary.[3] It had various dialects, one being Ba Barwidgee.[2]

Country

The Dhudhuroa inhabited a strretch of territory that encompassed around 1,800 sq. miles, embracing the areas defined by the. Mitta Mitta and Kiewa rivers. It included Tallangatta and the Murray River Valley land from Jingellic and Tintaldra to Albury.[5]

Social organization

The early Australian ethnographer Alfred Howitt categorized the Dhudhuroa as a horde of the Jaitmathang,[5] an opinion shared by Aldo Massola in 1962.[6] Linguistically however the vocabulary they used differed from that noted down from tribal informants of various hordes of the Jaitmattang.[7]

Alternative names

  • Tharamirttong, Tharamittong.
  • Tharomattay.
  • Jeenong-metong (strong-footed ones)
  • Dyinning-middhang.
  • Ginning-matong.
  • Dhooroomba.( ?)
  • Theddora mittung. (hordal term)[8]

Some words

  • ngiyambanba (fire)
  • geberri (bad)
  • gundja (good)
  • yambo (fish)
  • bandjina (child)
  • mema (father)
  • baba (mother)
  • wingga (dog)
  • dalga (mountain)
  • gumbarro (gum tree)[7]

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Blake & Reid 2002, pp. 177–210.
    2. 1 2 Clark 2009, p. 201.
    3. 1 2 Blake & Reid 1999, p. 23.
    4. ↑ Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
    5. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 204.
    6. ↑ Massola 1962, pp. 319–325.
    7. 1 2 Clark 2009, pp. 208–209.
    8. ↑ Tindale 1974.

    References

    • Blake, Barry; Reid, Julie (2002). "The Dhudhuroa language of northeastern Victoria: a description based on historical sources" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 26 (Annual 2002): 177–210. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
    • Blake, Barry J.; Reid, Julie (1999). "Pallanganmiddang: a language of the Upper Murray". Aboriginal History. Australian National University. 23: 15–31. JSTOR 24046758.
    • Clark, Ian D. (2009). "Dhudhuroa and Yaithmathang languages and social groups in north-east Victoria – a reconstruction". Aboriginal History. Australian National University. 33: 201–229. JSTOR 24046829.
    • Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
    • Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
    • Massola, Aldo (1962). "Aborigines of the Victorian high plains". Royal Society of Victoria Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 75 (2): 319–325.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Duduroa (VIC)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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