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Our Word of the week is Myall According to Boxes 4-5: Survey...

02/04/2017



Our Word of the week is Myall

According to Boxes 4-5: Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia regarding Aboriginal place names, 1899-1903, 1921-1926  Myall means “Wild”. It appears to be associated with Wiradjuri language from the Wagga Wagga area.  

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It is important to note that these records were written in most cases about Aboriginal languages by non - Aboriginal people. For this reason, the written words may not accurately reflect the ways in which an oral language was spoken and transmitted.