The Madoitja or Tjupany were an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 year ...
people of
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
.
Language
The
Madoitja language was one of the
Wati languages
The Wati languages are the dominant Pama–Nyungan languages of central Australia. They include the moribund Wanman language and the Western Desert dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of Variety (linguistics) ...
.
Location
The Madoitja lands, according to an inference from contiguous areas by Norman Tindale, ranged over some of territory, from east of the
Three Rivers and
Old Peak Hill to Lakes King and
Nabberu. Their southern confines lay around
Cunyu, touching on the northwestern border of Millrose. They lay north-northeast of the
Wajarri
The Wajarri people, also spelt Wadjari, Wadjarri, Watjarri, and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Boolardy Station, along with the tiny settlement of ...
.
Alternative names
* ''Konin''
* ''Marduidji''
* ''Milamada''
* ''Wainawonga''
* ''Waula'' (
Pini exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym ) is a common, name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate them ...
meaning "northerners")
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia