Ballardong are an indigenous

Noongar The Noongar (, also spelt Noongah, Nyungar , Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga ) are Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the so ...

people of the south western area of Western Australia.

Country

The Ballardong's land encompasses an estimated . Northwards they occupy the Avon River. From

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, To the east they extend to Tammin,

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, Waddouring Hill, and Bencubbin, Toodyay, Goomalling, the

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. On their southern flank lays Pingelly and Wickepin. Their western frontier is at the

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Economy

The Ballardong engaged in mining, quarrying stones to be shaped and sharpened for knives and multibarbed spears at Kalannie Boyangoora, Booyungur.

Alternative names

* ''Balardong'' * ''Balladong, Ballardon'' * ''Ballerdokking'' * ''Boijangura, Boyangoora, Booyungur'' (

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) * ''Maiawongi'' (language name) * ''Minang'' ("south", used by the Kalamaia of the ''Ballardong'' and other southern tribes' languages), ''Boyangoora, Booyungur'' * ''Mudila, Mudilja, Mudi:a'' (general

Kalamaia The Kalamaia are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. Country According to Norman Tindale, Kalamaia lands stretched over some . Their eastward extension ran to Bullabulling, ...

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for the ''Ballardong'' and other uncircumcised tribes to their southwest). * ''Toode-nunjer'' (a coastal exonym for the Ballardong, properly, ''Tu:denyunga'' (Toodyay men)) * ''Waljuk'' * ''Warranger'' * ''Warrangul, Warrangle'' ("koala country". This ethnonym was also applied to the

Koreng The Koreng, also spelled Goreng, are an indigenous Noongar people of south-west of Western Australia. Language ''Koreng'' belonged to the Nyungic language family, and, specifically, the Koreng appear to have spoken the Wilmun dialect of Nyung ...

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Language

* ''chungar'' (Brown man) * ''doorda'' (tame dog) * ''maman'' (father) * ''unkan'' (mother) * ''yockine'' (wild dog) Source:

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* * * * * * {{Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Noongar