The Walbunja , also spelt Walbanga , Walbunga and Wulbunja , are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales , part of the Yuin nation.
5-559: The Walbunja language may be a dialect of Dhurga . The Walbunja people are a subgroup of the Yuin nation. Walbunja Country covers 2,500 square miles (6,500 km) a region from Cape Dromedary northwards to the vicinity of Ulladulla . Their inland extension is as far as the Shoalhaven River . Braidwood , Araluen and Moruya all lie on what is Walbunja land. The Wandandian peoples lay on their northern boundary, and to their south are
10-496: A new app as a teaching aid for both Dhurga and the Thaua language , using old audio recordings of elders as well as documentation created by early explorers and settlers in the region. One of the major contributors to the project, Graham Moore, has also written an Aboriginal language book. Staff of Vincentia High School, led by Gary Worthy, have carried out research into Aboriginal languages and run community workshops since 2004, and
15-668: The Djiringanj and Thaua . Alternative spellings include Walbanga, Walbunga, and Wulbunja. According to Norman Tindale , alternative names included: The Walbunja Rangers Programme was established by the Batemans Bay Local Aboriginal Land Council in response to the Black Summer fires in 2019–20 . The group comprises 10–15 young Indigenous rangers who undertake cultural burning , pest eradication , and monitoring species monitoring on Country. In March 2024
20-880: The group won the Marie Byles Award for the most inspiring community action initiative in the NSW Environment Awards, a group of awards given by the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales . Walbunja language The Dhurga language , also written Thurga , is an Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales . It is a language of the Yuin people , specifically the Wandandian and Walbunja groups, but there have been no fluent speakers officially recorded for decades, so it has been functionally extinct for some time. Efforts have been made to revive
25-565: The language since the 2010s. The language is tonal , and spoken in the Nowra - Jervis Bay area southwards to Narooma , and possibly as far south as Wallaga Lake . Dharumba and Walbanga / Walbjunja may have been dialects. No speakers of the language have been officially recorded since before 1975. In 2015 local Yuin people collaborated with the Tathra Public School in Tathra to create
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