Wangaibon

Wangaibon
Total population
possibly under 100
(less than 1% of the Australian population, less than 1% of the Aboriginal population)
Regions with significant populations

 Australia
(Queensland)

Languages
English, formerly Warrongo language and Gugu Badhun language
Religion
Aboriginal mythology

The Wangaibon are a tribe of Indigenous Australians who traditionally lived between Nyngan, the headwaters of Bogan Creek and on Tigers Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks[1][2][3] and west to Ivanhoe, New South Wales.[4]

Language

The spoke the Ngiyambaa language.

To distinguish themselves from other language groups in the area, they refer to themselves as the people who speak Ngiyampaa the Wongaibon way], that is, they use the word wangaay for "no". They are one of a number of language groups in Central NSW that use No to refer to themelves.

Like other Ngiyampaa people they also referred to themselves according to their home country.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Wangaibon.
  2. ↑ Cameron, A. L. P. (00158). "Notes on Some Tribes of New South Wales." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 14:344-370.
  3. ↑ Woods, J. D., ed. The Native Tribes of South Australia. Adelaide: E. S. Wigg & Son. (1879)
  4. ↑ Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (1974). Wongaibon (NSW) .
  5. ↑ Cobar Peneplain - regional history Aboriginal occupation Office of Environment and heritage, NSW government, 2011.
  6. ↑ Smart, J., Creaser, P. and Monaghan, D. 2000b. Linking Conservation Assessment and Aboriginal Ecological Knowledge on the Cobar Peneplain. NPWS, Hurstville.


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