What language did the Peramangk people speak?
Peramangk
| Peramangk people | |
|---|---|
| Language family: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Language branch: | Yura-Thura |
| Language group: | Peramangk |
| Group dialects: | Dharuk, Gamaraygal, Iora |
How do you pronounce Peramangk?
Para Wirra Conservation Park is on the shared lands of three nations – the Peramangk (pronounced ‘Pera-munk’), Ngadjuri (pronounced ‘Ngad-ju-ri’, with ‘ng’ as in ‘sing’) and Kaurna people – located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges.
What did Peramangk people eat?
Peramangk peoples’ life generally was peaceful and fulfilling as set by their lore, but with occasional disputes as with all cultures. They lived with in the 11 known clan groups and within this, extended family groups. Plant based foods included native fruits, leafy vegetables, roots and tubers.
What Aboriginal land is Nuriootpa on?
Nuriootpa (/ˌnjʊəriˈʊtpə/ NEWR-ee-UUT-pə) is a town in South Australia and the major commercial centre of the Barossa Valley, about an hour’s drive north of the state capital, Adelaide, and 77 kilometres by rail. The name of the town is reputed to be the local Aboriginal word for “meeting place”.
What is Kaurna Yerta?
Kaurna is the language of Aboriginal people from the lands and waters of Tarntanya (Adelaide) and surrounds. Yerta is their word for country. So the corporation’s name effectively means ‘our country’.
What does Kaurna Yerta mean?
Kaurna Meyunna Yerta ‘Kaurna Country’ Ngankitta yerta, Mother Earth Country, is my place of spiritual birth, it is my unfolding connection to my ancestral dreaming and totem design. This lives within me as it does in star, tree, rock, river, animal, bird and seed; same thing.
What Aboriginal land is Barossa?
Peramangk
The land that today we call the Barossa has – for tens of thousands of years – been the spiritual and physical home of the Peramangk, Ngadjuri and Kaurna people, who continue to carry this unbroken cultural connection into the 21st century.
What kind of language is the Peramangk language?
Peramangk is the language of the Mount Lofty region. It lies east of the Kaurna language and west of Ngarrindjeri and the River Murray languages. Peramangk lies on the boundary between two different major language groups: the YURA (Kaurna etc.) to the West and the NGARRINYERIC (Ngarrindjeri etc.) to the east.
How did the Peramangk people get their name?
There are also sites along the River Murray to the east where Peramangk people had access to the river. They named this area Bukatila, a deep pool or wash place. The name Peramangk is thought to be a combination of the words Pera, meaning the place on the Tiers Range of Mount Barker, and maingker, red colour or ochre skin warrior.
What was the name of the Peramangk River?
Ngankiparri: Women’s River – Onkaparinga River, as it is known to the Kaurna. QAs the Peramangk shared the river, a common language and culture there seems little reason not to surmise that they did no share the name of this river too.
Where does the Peramangk tribe live in Australia?
They were also referred to as the Mount Barker tribe, as their numbers were noted to be greater around the Mount Barker summit, but Peramangk country extends from the Barossa Valley in the north, south to Myponga, east to Mannum and west to the Mount Lofty Ranges.