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Inapertwa in Arrernte mythology, simple ancestral beings formed into all plants, birds, animals and later humans; Ipilja-ipilja 100ft gecko of Anindilyakwa myth. Adorned with hairs and whiskers. Spews swamp water to make the clouds of the sky, thunder is ipilja-ipilja's roaring. Ipilja-ipilja's home is a swamp filled with deadly waters.
Conversely, the Noongar saw the settlers' livestock as fair game to replace the dwindling stocks of native animals shot indiscriminately by settlers. [ citation needed ] The only area that successfully resisted the usurpation of native land for any time was the area around the Murray River , which effectively blocked expansion of the tiny ...
[5] [6] The country of the Noongar people is the southwest corner of Western Australia. Within that region, many Noongar words have been adopted into English, particularly names of plants and animals. [7] Noongar was first recorded in 1801 by Matthew Flinders, who made a number of word lists. [8]
In Western Australia it is also known as dalgyte by the Noongar people from their word djalkat, [4] [5] [6] and as ninu by the remote Kiwirrkurra people. [7] The Wiradjuri of New South Wales also call it bilby. [8] Other names include pinkie and rabbit-eared bandicoot. [9] It is called mankarr by the Manjilijarra people of Western Australia. [10]
Due to the Noongar language having several dialects, the Wagyl is referred to by different groups by different names. Varieties include Waugal, Waagal, Wargyl, Waakal, Waakle, Woggal, Wogal, Waagle, Warrgul and Warkal. In the Wiilman Noongar dialect, the Wagyl is called the Ngunnunguddy Gnuditj (meaning 'hairy-faced snake'). [2]
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1]
The following is a list of notable Aboriginal Australian people of Noongar identity, from the south-west corner of Western Australia This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
It is also known as the chuditch (/ ˈ tʃ ʊ d ɪ tʃ /) in Western Australia (from Noongar djooditj); [6] chuditch serves as both the singular and plural form. Other common names include atyelpe or chilpa (from Arrernte), [7] kuninka (from Western Desert language); [8] idnya (Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges) [9] and the archaic ...