Which animals are important to the Noongar people?

Noongar maam (men) hunted large animals like the yongka (kangaroo) and weitj (emu) and wild duck. The yorga or yok (women) and koolangka (children) would gather smaller animals such as the nyingarn (echidna), karda (lizard) and goomal/ngwir (possum).

1. What is lizard in Noongar?
2. What is Noongar dog?
3. What is possum in Noongar?
4. What is kangaroo in Noongar?
5. How did the Noongar people survive?
6. What did the Noongar people hunt?
7. What is the Whadjuk name for Perth?
8. How do you say friend in Noongar?
9. What's the aboriginal word for water?
10. What is the Aboriginal word for dog?
11. What is the Aboriginal name for Magpie?
12. What is Australia in Noongar?
13. What is Australia's aboriginal name?
14. What Aboriginal land is Esperance on?
15. Where does the aboriginal animal the Wagyl rest and reside?

What is lizard in Noongar?

Karda. Goanna (as in lizard)

What is Noongar dog?

Example: Nidja dwert - This is a dog.

What is possum in Noongar?

Kelang and Koomal are both names for what in English is called the Common Brushtail Possum, or simply the Brushtail Possum. ... The sub-species in Noongar Boodjar is Trichosurus vulpecula hypoleucus. Koomal is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial, it is native to Australia, and its conservation status is "Least Concern".

What is kangaroo in Noongar?

Overall there are many common words in Noongar, for example: kaya = hello, moort = family, boodja = country and yongka = kangaroo.

How did the Noongar people survive?

Generally, Noongar made a living by hunting and trapping a variety of game, including kangaroos, possums and wallabies; for people close to the coastal zone or riverine systems, spear-fishing or culling fish in traps was customary.

What did the Noongar people hunt?

Noongar maam (men) hunted large animals like the yongka (kangaroo) and weitj (emu) and wild duck. The yorga or yok (women) and koolangka (children) would gather smaller animals such as the nyingarn (echidna), karda (lizard) and goomal/ngwir (possum).

What is the Whadjuk name for Perth?

Perth City is located in the ancient country of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people, who have been the Traditional Owners of the south west of Western Australia for at least 45,000 years.

How do you say friend in Noongar?

Bunji: Means friend/mate. Cooee: Is actually a widely used Aboriginal word that is often unknowingly used by non Indigenous people. But luckily they have been using the word correctly as the word means 'come here' in the Dharug language from the South Western areas of Sydney.

What's the aboriginal word for water?

Aboriginal people of the inland differentiate between permanent water, called Living water, and seasonal water that dries up during parts of the year. For Walmajarri people like Jimmy Pike, the word for permanent water is Jila, whereas the word for seasonal water is Jumu.

What is the Aboriginal word for dog?

In Warlpiri, there are two words for dog: jarntu and maliki. There is a difference, Watson says. "Jarntu is kind of like an offended word. So we call them maliki in a pleasant and polite way.

What is the Aboriginal name for Magpie?

Booroogong and garoogong were Wiradjuri words, and carrak was a Jardwadjali term from Victoria. Among the Kamilaroi, it is burrugaabu, galalu, or guluu. In Western Australia it is known as warndurla among the Yindjibarndi people of the central and western Pilbara, and koorlbardi amongst the south west Noongar peoples.

What is Australia in Noongar?

Noongar means 'a person of the south-west of Western Australia,' or the name for the 'original inhabitants of the south-west of Western Australia' and we are one of the largest Aboriginal cultural blocks in Australia. ... Noongar have ownership of our own kaartdijin and culture.

What is Australia's aboriginal name?

The nations of Indigenous Australia were, and are, as separate as the nations of Europe or Africa. The Aboriginal English words 'blackfella' and 'whitefella' are used by Indigenous Australian people all over the country — some communities also use 'yellafella' and 'coloured'.

What Aboriginal land is Esperance on?

Esperance Nyungar Peoples' ancestral lands span over 30,000 square kilometres of Southern Western Australia. Tjaltjraak comes from the Esperance Nyungar name for the Mallee (also known as Tallerack or Blue Mallee Eucalyptus pleurocarpa) which Esperance Nyungars believe mark the extent of their country.

Where does the aboriginal animal the Wagyl rest and reside?

The being is strongly associated with rivers, lakes like Lake Monger, and is supposed still to reside deep beneath springs. As the Wagyl slithered over the land, his track shaped the sand dunes, his body scoured out the course of the rivers; where he occasionally stopped for a rest, he created bays and lakes.