Walgalu

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title: "Walgalu" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["aboriginal-peoples-of-new-south-wales", "indigenous-australians-in-the-australian-capital-territory", "brindabella-ranges", "canberra", "extinct-languages-of-the-australian-capital-territory"] description: "Aboriginal people in New South Wales, Australia" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walgalu" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Aboriginal people in New South Wales, Australia ::

The Walgalu are an Aboriginal people of highland southeast New South Wales, Australia. The Ngambri may belong to the Walgalu grouping, but are often treated separately.

Language

According to some scholars, the Walgalu language is a form of Ngarigo.

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Walgalu's traditional lands consisted of some 2600 sqmi of territory centering around the headwaters of the Murrumbidgee and Tumut rivers. Kiandra was located within their boundaries, whose southern extension ran down Tintaldra, and whose northeastern limits were at Queanbeyan. Josephine Flood argued, on the basis of a note in Alfred William Howitt, that they were attested as far south as the upper Murray site of Kauwambal between Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Cobberas, which would place their summer camping somewhat west of the Djilamatang.

According to Steven Avery, culture group boundaries in southeastern Australia are disputed, due in part to the inexactitude of linguistically assigned boundaries and the uncertainty of historical records.

The Cooma local government website, based on recent research, differentiates between two Aboriginal groups which resided in their region, stating that "the two main groups on Monaro were the Ngarigo people of the tablelands and the Wogul or Wolgalu group in the high country."

Alternative names

• Guramal (Wiradjuri language = "hostile men")
• Gurmal
• Tumut River people
• Tumut tribe
• Walgadu
• Wolgah
• Wolgal
• Murrin

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Citations

Sources

• {{cite web| title = Aboriginal People of Monaro | url = http://www.cooma.nsw.gov.au/culturalmap/aboriginal/aboriginal.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120320234702/http://www.cooma.nsw.gov.au/culturalmap/aboriginal/aboriginal.htm | archive-date = 20 March 2012 | ref =
• {{cite book| title = Aboriginal and European Encounter in the Canberra Region: a question of change and the archaeological record | last = Avery | first = Steven | year = 1994 | publisher = Attorney-General's Department, MA thesis | url = http://www.kunama.com/custlaw/CUSTIND.HTM | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111004072522/http://www.kunama.com/custlaw/CUSTIND.HTM | archive-date = 4 October 2011
• {{cite book| title = Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development | last = Dixon | first = R. M. W. | year = 2002 | author-link = Robert M. W. Dixon | publisher = Cambridge University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&pg=PR35 | isbn = 978-0-521-47378-1
• {{Cite book| chapter = Artefacts, language and interaction: a case study from south-eastern Australia | last = McBryde | first = Isabel | year = 1986 | title = Stone Age Prehistory: studies in memory of Charles McBurney | editor1-last = Bailey | editor1-first = G. | editor2-last = Callow | editor2-first = P. | publisher = Oxford University Press | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tTs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA77 | pages = 77–93 | isbn = 978-052125773-2
• {{Cite book| chapter = Walgalu (NSW) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = Australian National University | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/walgalu.htm

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