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Wiradjuri, n. (and a.)|wəˈrædʒərɪ|
Also † Waradgeri, Wiradjeri, etc.
[Austral. Aboriginal, app. f. Wiradjuri wirai no (see quot. 1884).]
a. (A member of) an Australian Aboriginal people inhabiting western and central areas of New South Wales.
b. 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. Also attrib. or as adj.
1884A. L. P. Cameron in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. XIV. 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; Wiradjeri blackfellows say ‘Wira’ for No! and Wonghi blackfellows say ‘Wonghi’, but they are all friends.’ 1894A. 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. 1904A. 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. 1957Encycl. Brit. II. 742/2 In Wiradjuri, the possessive pronouns appear as suffixes attached to their appropriate nouns. 1965Austral. 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. 1972Linguistics 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. 1990Times 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. |