Walbanga

The Walbanga were an indigenous Australian people of New South Wales

Language

The language of the Walbanga may have been a dialect of Dhurga.[1]

Country

The Walbanga ranged over some 2,500 square miles (6,500 km2) of their tribal territory from Cape Dromedary northwards to the vicinity of Ulladulla. Their inland extension was as far as the Shoalhaven River. Braidwood, Araluen, and Moruya all lie on what was once Walbanga land. The Wandandian lay on their northern boundary, and to their south were the Djiringanj[2] and Thaua.[3]

Alternative names

  • Thurga (tirga, was their word for 'no')
  • Thoorga.
  • Bugellimanji. (A Walbanga horde
  • Bargalia.
  • Moruya tribe.[3]

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
    2. ↑ Slattery 2015, p. 122.
    3. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 199.

    Sources

    • 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.
    • Slattery, Deirdre (2015). Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 978-1-486-30172-0.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Walbanga (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.
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