Birrippi
The Birrbay people, also spelt Birpai, Biripi, Birippi and variant spellings, are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. They and share a dialect continuum with the Worimi people. Language The Gathang language (aka Gadjang or Worimi) is the speech of the Birrbay centred in Port Macquarie. Birpai is spelt Biripi in southern areas, such as Taree, New South Wales, Taree. Gathang was a community language spoken by the six tribes of the Worimi when required to meet. W. J. Enright found four elderly speakers of Gathang at Wauchope, New South Wales, Wauchope in 1932. Country Birbay are the traditional owners of some of Mid North Coast land, from Gloucester, New South Wales, Gloucester eastwards to the coast where the Manning River debouches into the Pacific at Taree, New South Wales, Taree. They were mainly located north of the Manning, and on the Forbes River (New South Wales), Forbes, Hastings River, Hastings (''Dhungang'') and Wilson River (New South Wales), Wilson ri ...
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