The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian...
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of two dialects of the Dharug language related to their coastal or inland groups. There was armed conflict between the Dharug and the English settlers...
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first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language, it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration...
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he would have known as Kamay in the Dharug language. He is considered to have been a cardio (cleverman), a Dharug spiritual healer and culture keeper...
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who speak a common language and have become known as the Eora people. "Eora" refers to "people" or "of this place" in Dharug language. Soon after his arrival...
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Bidjigal (section Language group)
Reserve, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River. They are part of the Dharug language group. The Bidjigal clan were the first Indigenous Australians to encounter...
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respective included languages. The koala is named from the word gula for the animal in the Dharug language, a Yuin–Kuri language within the Yora group...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gula may refer to: Gula (animal), Dharug language name for the koala bear Gula (crater), a crater on Ganymede Gula (ethnic...
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than possible with only the arm. The word "woomera" comes from the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin. The name was adopted for the...
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Lyrics for the anthem have been written twice in the Dharug language, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken around Sydney by the Dharawal people. A first...
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the natural sounds of the bush. The word "cooee" originates from the Dharug language of Aboriginal Australians in the Sydney area. The call was used by...
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The name "wombat" comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. It...
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The Dreaming (category Articles containing undetermined-language text)
in the language Martu Wangka Wongar in North-East Arnhem Land Daramoolen in Ngunnawal language and Ngarigo language Nura in the Dharug language Nyitting...
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similar to it, but the Dharug language dictionary online defines "temora" as "a tree standing alone". Alternatively, in the Celtic language it is derived from...
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Woiwurrung, Taungurung and Boonwurrung are Aboriginal languages of the Kulin nation of Central Victoria. Woiwurrung was spoken by the Woiwurrung and related...
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notation in Australia Demographics of Australia Deserts of Australia Dharug language Diminutives in Australian English Don Bradman The Dreaming Drought...
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Indigenous music of Australia (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Phillip, and while they were in London gave a recital of a song in the Dharug language. The Yolngu term Bunggul refers to song, music and dance, which form...
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Ficus rubiginosa (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig (damun in the Dharug language), is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the...
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Fleet officer Daniel Southwell translated the local Aboriginal word (Dharug language) Woo-la-ra (also later spelt by others as Willarra and Wallara) as...
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Greater Western Sydney (section Languages)
the Penrith area was home to the Mulgoa tribe of the Dharug people, who spoke the Dharug language. They lived in makeshift huts called gunyahs, hunted...
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June 1947. The word woomera is an Australian Aboriginal word of the Dharug language of the Eora people of the Sydney basin; a woomera is a wooden spear-throwing...
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Greater Western Sydney region. The name 'Marayong' is derived from the Dharug language word 'Mariyung', which means emu or place of cranes. The name was first...
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dual-named Gooweebahree, (also sometimes written as Quiberee) in the Dharug language of the local inhabitants, the Cammeraygal people of the Eora nation...
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Patyegarang (section Documenting language)
from the Cammeraygal clan of the Dharug nation. Patyegarang (pronounced Pa-te-ga-rang) taught William Dawes the language of her people and is thought to...
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Dingo (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
offspring from the previous year. The name "dingo" comes from the Dharug language used by the Indigenous Australians of the Sydney area. The first British...
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of Hornsby. The Aboriginal inhabitants of the region were from the Dharug language group. The area was originally known as Upper Dural until early settler...
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suggested by local residents. The Aboriginal language known variously as Dharug, Eora or simply 'the Sydney Language' was spoken around Woronora at the time...
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Australian boobook (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
name bōkbōk "an owl" in 1790 or 1791, in his transcription of the Dharug language, and English explorer George Caley had recorded the native name as...
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were among the estimated two dozen clans around Sydney Harbour of the Dharug language group. These included the Kayamaygal and the Birrabirragal around what...
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