The Wariangga, also written Warriyangka, are an

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people of the

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region in

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Language

The Warriyangka spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta, the other members of the dialect continuum being the Thiin,

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and

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Country

According to

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's estimation the Wariangga's tribal lands stretched over approximately in the Gascoyne region, covering areas of the Upper Lyons River, and including also Gifford and Minnie creeks, Edmund and the area east of

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. Tindale states also that they held to a strict maintenance of boundaries. Their neighbours were the

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to the north, the Dyiwali to their northeast, the Ninanu directly east, the

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southeast, the

Malgaru The Malgaru were an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia. They might have been a subgroup of the Wariangga. Country The Malgaru ranged over, in Norman Tindale's estimation, some of territory to the east of the Kennedy Range National ...

at their southern limits, and the

due west.

Social organization

The Wariangga did not practice circumcision. Their marriage system was described by Daisy Bates.

Alternative names

* ''Wariengga, Warianga, Warienga, Warrijangga'' * ''Wariwongga, Wari-wonga, Warriwonga'' * ''Woorienga, Woorenga'' Source :

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* * * * * {{Authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Gascoyne