Nyungarn.adj.

1845 E. J. Eyre Jrnl. Exped. Central Austral. II. 396 Men or people... Yoon-gar.]

1896 R. Helms in Trans. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 16 281 The Yunga is a coastal tribe, the centre of their district being about Esperance Bay.

1940 N. B. Tindale in Trans. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 64 214 Alt.: Wudjari, Widjara, Warrangoo, Warranger, Warrangle, Ngokwurring, Ngokgurring, Nonga:, Nunga, Yunga (njonga=njunga=man).

1974 N. B. Tindale Aboriginal Tribes Austral. I. ii. 41/1 In the southwest of Western Australia at least one tribe calls itself Njunga, a term that..means man.

1981 W. H. Douglas in R. M. W. Dixon & B. J. Blake Handbk. Austral. Langs. II. 200 The Watjarri people..were also influenced by the Nyungars of the South-west, now moving into the towns of Geraldton, Mullewa and Mt. Magnet.

1993 E. Fesl Conned v. 97 Giustiniani wrote angry letters against the treatment of Nyunga reporting that settlers were collecting the ears of shot Nunga as ‘grisly trophies’.

1939 N. B. Tindale Austral. Vocab. (MS, Austral. Inst. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders) (title) Vocabulary 82, Nonga: at Thomas River WA.

1963 A. Capell Ling. Surv. Austral. w7 Njonga: see Wudjari.

1968 W. H. Douglas (title) The Aboriginal languages of South-West Australia: speech forms in current use and a technical description of Njungar.

1980 R. M. W. Dixon Langs. Austral. iv. 76 A handful of older people employ what must be a simplified version of the original Australian language of that area, which they call Nyungar or ‘the Lingo’.

1994 A. Dench in Macquarie Aboriginal Words ix. 176 Younger speakers of Nyungar have a pattern of pronunciation which has been influenced by English.

2002 R. M. W. Dixon Austral. Langs. xii. 636 The north-western dialect of WF, Nyungar, retains the original three-vowel system but other dialects have added e and o.

1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 105 N-Yoongars not black. Most all us N-Yoongars brown.

1969 L. Hadow Full Cycle 157 Us all N-Yoongars. [Note Aborigine of south-west Australia].

1975 R. Beilby Brown Land Crying 3 You're as much coloured as white, as much Noong-ah as wadjullah.

1986 A. Weller Going Home 38 I liked Johnny Blue all the time he was here, because he was the Nyoongah's mate, and mine especially.

1993 D. Palmer & L. Collard in R. White Youth Subcultures 17 I'm half white and half Nyungar so I can relate to both sides.

1896 R. Helms in Trans. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 16 309 The Yunga dialect contains a great proportion of abbreviations in the small vocabulary obtained.

1966 Anthropol. Linguistics 8 130 Numerous..dialects constitute the Nyunga subgroup.

1977 K. Gilbert Living Black 88 The most effective means of communication..we call..the ‘noongar grapevine’.

1990 R. M. W. Dixon et al. Austral. Aboriginal Words in Eng. 37 There are, in all, over 150 word lists of Nyungar dialects, including no less than thirty by Daisy Bates.

1983 L. Tilbrook (title) Nyungar tradition: glimpses of Aborigines of South-Western Australia, 1829-1914.

1993 E. Fesl Conned ii. 54 The Nyunga men would not allow Europeans near their women and children.

1990 M. Narogin in L. Thompson Aboriginal Voices 56 The deadly white phantoms arriving to mingle with the Nyungar people while mouthing out platitudes of awful spite.

1994 Austral. & N.Z. Stud. in Canada June 109 Davis..characteristically incorporates in all his plays versions of Nyoongah history and white history in a context that enables them both to exist and co-exist.