Djiringanj people

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The Djiringanj are an indigenous Australian people of the southern coast of New South Wales.

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Language

Robert M. W. Dixon classifies it as a distinct language from both Thaua and Dhurga. [1]

Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director of The Language and Culture Research Centre at JCU. Doctor of Letters, he was awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by JCU in 2018. Fellow of British Academy; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he is one of three living linguists to be specifically mentioned in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P. H. Matthews.

Dhurga (Thurga) is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales spoken around the Bega Valley area. The language is tonal. The language does not have a word for "thank you"; in an interview with Graham Moore, a Yuin elder who spoke the language, Moore stated, "We didn't have a word for thank you as we were quite a giving people."

Country

The Djiringanj's tribal lands encompassed roughly 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) southwards along the coast from Cape Dromedary to beyond Bega. Their inland extension ran up to the scarp of the Great Dividing Range east of Nimmitabel. [2] They were wedged between the Walbanga to their north and the Thaua to their south, while their western limits touched those of the Ngarigo. [3]

Bega, New South Wales Town in New South Wales, Australia

Bega is a town in the south-east of New South Wales, Australia in the Bega Valley Shire. It is the economic centre for the Bega Valley.

Great Dividing Range mountain range in the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria

The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world. It stretches more than 3,500 kilometres (2,175 mi) from Dauan Island off the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west, before finally fading into the central plain at the Grampians in western Victoria. The width of the range varies from about 160 km (100 mi) to over 300 km (190 mi). The Greater Blue Mountains Area, Gondwana Rainforests, and Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Areas are located in the range.

Nimmitabel Town in New South Wales, Australia

Nimmitabel is a small town in the Monaro region in southeast New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council local government area. At the 2016 census, Nimmitabel had a population of 320.

Alternative names

Yuin

The ethnonym Yuin refers to a group of Australian Aboriginal people from the South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, one or more of the Yuin language dialects, including Djiringanj, Thaua, Walbanga, Wandandian and Dhurga language

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Dixon 2002, p. xxxv.
    2. 1 2 Tindale 1974, p. 193.
    3. ↑ Slattery 2015, p. 122.

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