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The number of Noongar youth in incarceration exceeds the number in school or formal training. Daisy Bates claimed she interviewed the last fully initiated Whadjuk Noongar people in 1907, reporting on informants Fanny Balbel and Joobaitj, who had preserved in oral tradition the Aboriginal viewpoints of the coming of the Europeans.
Noongar (/ ˈ n ʊ ŋ ɑːr /), also Nyungar (/ ˈ n j ʊ ŋ ɡ ɑːr / [a]), is an Australian Aboriginal language or dialect continuum, spoken by some members of the Noongar community and others. It is taught actively in Australia, including at schools, universities and through public broadcasting.
Noongar language region, showing the different boundaries for groups. Whadjuk is the region near Perth. Scholars have identified the Beeliar area as having "major" sites for traditional Noongar ceremonies as well as a popular meeting area for "a number of major travel routes" between Noongar groups. [ 5 ]
Noongar and 13 of its other groups: Amangu, Ballardong, Kaneang, Koreng, Mineng, Njakinjaki, Njunga, Pibelmen, Pindjarup, Wardandi, Whadjuk, Wiilman and Wudjari Yued (also spelt Juat, Yuat and Juet) is a region inhabited by the Yued people, one of the fourteen groups of Noongar Aboriginal Australians who have lived in the South West corner of ...
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[a] The Noongar people refer to their land as Noongar boodja. [b] [3] The members of the collective Noongar cultural bloc descend from people who spoke several languages and dialects that were often mutually intelligible. [citation needed] What is now classified as the Noongar language is a member of the large Pama–Nyungan language family.
Noongar language groups The Wadandi , also spelt Wardandi and other variants, are an Aboriginal people of south-western Western Australia , one of fourteen language groups of the Noongar peoples.
Yellagonga (d. 1843) was a leader of the Whadjuk Noongar on the north side of the Swan River. Colonists saw Yellagonga as the owner of this area. However, land rights were also traced through women of the group. Yellagonga could hunt on wetlands north of Perth because of his wife Yingani's connections to that country. [1] [2]