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- proper noun An
indigenous people of southwesternAustralia - proper noun The common
language of an indigenous people of southwestern Australia - adjective
Pertaining to and/ordescribing either the language,persons orculture of the Noongar people
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Examples
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Protesters carried a small tent labelled Noongar Tent Embassy'' which they planned to set up at State Parliament this afternoon.
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Kwongan is a term adapted from the Aboriginal Noongar language to cover the various Western Australian types of shrubland, comparable with the maquis, chaparral, and fynbos of other countries with Mediterranean-type systems.
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I've seen your spelling as well as Nyungah, Nyungar, and Noongar.
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"Noongar (NEW-ahr) or Nyungar people" It's /'ɲʊŋə(ɹ)/, basically, which is what I think most people reading Noongar or Nyungar might well come up with on their own.
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The protesters have called their camp under gum trees on the banks of the Swan the Noongar tent embassy.
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About 30 people were at the camp on Heirisson Island in the Swan River today to protest against a proposed $1 billion native title settlement for the Noongar people of the state's southwest.
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Earlier she was presented with an Aboriginal message stick during a welcome to country by elders of the local Noongar people.
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Mr Barnett told Fairfax Radio today that signing the deal would be a courageous and big step by the Noongar people'', giving them self-determination and a future fund to benefit their people.
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As a motorcade brings the leaders and their spouses to Perth's convention centre, the Noongar elders will conduct the traditional ceremony.
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The majority of Noongar people, who number around 35,000, appear to favour reaching a deal, which is expected after by the end of the year.
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