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2 unusual facts about Ngunnawal people


Brindabella Valley

Before European settlement it was inhabited by the Ngunawal, Walgalu and Djimantan Indigenous Australians.

Ngunnawal

The Ngunnawal people, the indigenous people of the Canberra region of Australia.


Ngarigo people

The Wiradjuri considered the Ngarigo and Walgalu as one people using the name Guramal which has the basic meaning of 'gurai or 'hostile people.' Canberra, the capital city of the federal capital territory is very close to the boundary line between this and the Ngunawal tribe.

Ngunnawal language

Ngunnawal or Gundungurra is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngunnawal and Gandangara peoples.

Queanbeyan River

The Queanbeyan region is the traditional home of the Ngunnawal and the Ngarigo peoples.

Yuin–Kuric languages

Ngunnawal, also known as Gundungurra (Gundungura, Gudungura, or Gandangara), spoken by the Ngunnawal people and Gandangara people in south-eastern New South Wales and what is now Canberra.


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