The Wanggeriburra clan are one of
nine distinct named clan estate groups of the
Yugambeh people
The Yugambeh ( ''(see alternative spellings)'', also known as the Minyangbal ( , are an Aboriginal Australian people of south-east Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, their territory lies between the Logan and Tweed river ...
and the name refers to the Indigenous people of the
Tamborine area in the
Scenic Rim
The Scenic Rim is a group of forested mountain ranges of the Great Dividing Range, located south of Brisbane agglomeration, straddling the border between south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. In 2021, the S ...
, Queensland, Australia.
Name
The ethnonym Wanggeriburra has been related to a Yugambeh word, Wanggeri, which refers to the
Pretty-faced Wallaby with -burra meaning "people" and thus means "Pretty-faced Wallaby People". This may have been a clan totem or food source that typified their country.
Language
The Wanggeriburra people spoke a dialect, of which over a thousand words have been preserved, of the
Yugambeh language
Yugambeh (or ''Mibanah'', from , 'language of men' or 'sound of eagles'), also known as Tweed-Albert Bandjalang, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Yugambeh living in South-East Queensland between and within the Logan River ...
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Knowledge of the grammar and vocabulary was recorded by John Allen (Aboriginal name Bullum) with the assistance of John Lane in 1913.
Comparisons with neighbouring clan words lists showed they spoke the same variety of language as the
Mununjali.
Country
According to John Allen's map their tribal boundaries are said to have extended north to Cedar Creek, west to the Birnam range, south to the Mcacpherson range, with the headwaters of the Coomera River and the Darlington Range on their east.
The Wanggeriburra were located south of the Gugingin clan on the Logan River, in the Tamborine area, north of the Tulgigin, with the Bullongin and Kombumerri to their east.
See also
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Yugambeh people
The Yugambeh ( ''(see alternative spellings)'', also known as the Minyangbal ( , are an Aboriginal Australian people of south-east Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, their territory lies between the Logan and Tweed river ...
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Mununjali clan
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Kombumerri clan
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