Ballardong are an indigenous

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the South West, Western Australia, south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton, Western Aus ...

people of the south western area of Western Australia.

Country

The Ballardong's land encompasses an estimated . Northwards they occupy the Avon River. From the east of

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they extend to Tammin,

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, Waddouring Hill, Bencubbin, Toodyay, Goomalling, and the

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. On their southern flank lies

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and Wickepin. Their western frontier is at the

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Economy

The Ballardong engaged in mining, quarrying stones to be shaped and sharpened for knives and multibarbed spears at Kalannie.

Alternative names

* ''Balardong'' * ''Balladong, Ballardon'' * ''Ballerdokking'' * ''Boijangura, Boyangoora, Booyungur'' (

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) * ''Maiawongi'' (language name) * ''Minang'' ("south", used by the Kalamaia of the ''Ballardong'' and other southern tribes' languages), ''Boyangoora, Booyungur'' * ''Mudila, Mudilja, Mudi:a'' (general

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for the ''Ballardong'' and other uncircumcised tribes to their southwest) * ''Toode-nunjer'' (a coastal exonym for the Ballardong, properly, ''Tu:denyunga'' (Toodyay men)) * ''Waljuk'' * ''Warranger'' * ''Warrangul, Warrangle'' ("koala country"; ethnonym also applied to the

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)

Language

* ''chungar'' (brown man) * ''doorda'' (tame dog) * ''maman'' (father) * ''unkan'' (mother) * ''yockine'' (wild dog) Source:

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* * * * * * {{Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Noongar