Bundjalung Language

	Bundjalung Language Bundjalung may refer to: * Bundjalung people, an Aboriginal-Australian group * Western Bundjalung people, an Aboriginal-Australian group ** Wahlubal, their language * Yugambeh-Bandjalangic peoples The Yugambeh-Bandjalangic peoples (also known just as ''Bundjalung''), are an Aboriginal Australian ethnolinguistic group identified by their use of one of more of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung languages and shared cultural practises and histories. T ..., a cultural bloc / polity of Aboriginal-Australians. Yugambeh-Bundjalung languages, their language family {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bundjalung People The Bundjalung people, also spelt Bunjalung, Badjalang and Bandjalang, are Aboriginal Australians who are the original custodians of the northern coastal area of New South Wales, Australia, located approximately northeast of Sydney, an area that includes the Bundjalung National Park. Bundjalung people all share descent from ancestors who once spoke as their first, preferred language one or more of the dialects of the Lower-Richmond branch of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung language family. The Arakwal of Byron Bay count themselves as one of the Bundjalung peoples. Language Bundjalung is a Pama-Nyungan language. It has two unusual features: certain syllables are strongly stressed while others are "slurred", and it classifies gender into four classes: (a) masculine (b) feminine (c) arboreal and (d) neuter. Country According to Norman Tindale, Bundjalung tribal lands encompassed roughly , from the northern side of the Clarence River to the Richmond River, including Ballina wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Western Bundjalung People The Western Bundjalung or Bundjalung people are an aggregation of tribes of Australian Aboriginal people who inhabit north-east NSW along the Clarence River, now within the Clarence Valley, Glen Innes Severn Shire, Kyogle, Richmond Valley, and Tenterfield Shire Council areas. Country Descendants of the Western Bundjalung claim a land extending over extending from the Hogarth Range westwards as far as Bald Rock National Park and taking in the Clarence River aMoleville north of Grafton, to Carpet Snake Creek, north of Tabulam. Language The Western Bundjalung a range of dialects, known as the Middle Clarence dialects, belonging to the Bandjalangic languages. It comprised several dialects: * '' Waalulbal'' * ''Baryulgil/Wirribi'' versions of Wehlubal * ''Casino,'' a Galibal dialect. History of contact Squatters began taking up tracts of West Bundjalung land in the 1840s. The first grant of land was made to one, Stapleton, in 1840. One of the colonials, a Scottish squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Wahlubal Waalubal (Wahlubal), also known as Western Bundjalung, Baryulgil, and Middle Clarence Bandjalang, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Western Bundjalung living in North-East New South Wales. Nomenclature In the Western Bundjalung language, ''Wahlubal'' means "those who say Wahlu", ''Wahlu'' being the form of the second person nominative 'you' used in this variety. Wahlubal was spoken in the Tabulam Tabulam is a rural village in the far north-east of New South Wales, Australia, 800 kilometres from the state capital, Sydney. Tabulam is located on the Bruxner Highway (Highway 44) between Tenterfield and Casino and on the Clarence River. A ... area, further downstream at Baryulgil the Wehlubal dialect was spoken, ''Wehlu'' being this dialects form of ''Wahlu.'' To the east across the range, at Rappville along Bungawalbin creek the Birihn dialect was spoken, ''Birihn'' meaning 'southern', slightly the north was the very similar but distinct Casino dialect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yugambeh-Bandjalangic Peoples The Yugambeh-Bandjalangic peoples (also known just as ''Bundjalung''), are an Aboriginal Australian ethnolinguistic group identified by their use of one of more of the Yugambeh-Bundjalung languages and shared cultural practises and histories. There are roughly 15 individual groups, who together form a wider cultural bloc or polity often described as “Bundjalung” or "Three Brothers Mob". Languages The Yugambeh-Bandjalangic people speak is a branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. Branches The Yugambeh-Bandjalangic family is made of four branches: Tweed-Albert Language, also known as the Yugambeh language: * Yugambeh * Nganduwal * Ngarangwal Condamine-Upper Clarence, also known as the Githabul language * Galibal * Dinggabal * Gidabal * Geynan Lower Richmond, also known as the (Eastern) Bundjalung/Bandjalang language * Ngangbal * Bandjalang * Wiyabal * Minyangbal Middle Clarence, also known as the (Western) Bundjalung language * Wahlubal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]