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Yolngu clans are
affiliated with
either the
Dhuwa (also
spelt Dua) or the
Yirritja moiety.
Prominent Dhuwa clans include the Rirratjiŋu and Gälpu
clans of...
- are
either Yirritja or Dhuwa: Fish, stone, river, sea etc.,
belongs to one or the
other moiety.
Things that are not
either Dhuwa or
Yirritja are called...
- the
Ritharrngu people, one of
several Yolngu peoples: (a)
Ritharnggu (
Yirritja moiety), and (b)
Wagilak language (Dua moiety). The
Manggurra (the other...
- are
Wagilak and
Manggura (of the
Dhuwa moiety), and Ritharrŋu (of the
Yirritja moiety). The Ritharrŋu
language is a Yolŋu
Matha language. In
modern times...
-
clans sharing similar dialects, were
organised according to the
Dhuwa and
Yirritja (Jiritja) moieties.
Their ethnonymic identity as a
unified group was based...
-
stories from our old people, not only my people, but everyone, all
Dhuwa and
Yirritja, we are not
making this up. I want you to
listen to me Government. I know...
-
native tongue.
According to
linguist Robert M. W. Dixon,
Dialects of the
Yirritja moiety are (a)
Gupapuyngu and Gumatj;
Dialects of the
Dhuwa moiety are...
- the
Manggalili language group located in the
Arnhem region, and is of
Yirritja moiety. He
described himself as an ‘artistfella’ and
worked as an advocate...
- Marawili,
continued his
legacy and is also an artist.
Wakuthi belonged to the
Yirritja moiety, and
hailed from Dhurruputjpi, in
Northeast Arnhemland's Blue Mud...
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Mungurrawuy Yunupingu was born in
northeast Arnhem Land
around 1905, of the
Yirritja moiety. He
became a
senior cultural leader of the
Gumatj clan in Yirrkala...
