Yuin people
Sign in to saveThe Yuin nation, also spelt Djuwin, is a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, one or more of the Yuin language dialects. Sub-groupings of the Yuin people are made on the basis of language and other cultural features; groups include the Brinja or Bugelli-manji, Wandandian, Jerrinja, Budawang, Yuin-Monaro, Djiringanj, Walbunja, and more. They have a close linguistic and cultural association with the Thaua and Dharawal people.
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- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- New South Wales
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20 sectionsContents
- Name and identity
- Language
- Country
- History
- Places
- Kinship and marriage
- Skin groups
- Relationship with the natural world
- Specific animals
- Beings interacting with families
- Initiation totems and names
- Beings interacting with individuals
- Spiritual beliefs
- Messenger birds
- Dulagal
- Notable Yuin
- Notes
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
The Yuin nation, also spelt Djuwin, is a group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales. All Yuin people share ancestors who spoke, as their first language, one or more of the Yuin language dialects. Sub-groupings of the Yuin people are made on the basis of language and other cultural features; groups include the Brinja or Bugelli-manji, Wandandian, Jerrinja, Budawang, Yuin-Monaro, Djiringanj, Walbunja, and more. They have a close linguistic and cultural association with the Thaua and Dharawal people.
==Name and identity== The ethnonym Yuin ("man") was selected by early Australian ethnographer, Alfred Howitt, to denote two distinct Nations of New South Wales, namely the Djiringanj and the Thaua. In Howitt's work, the Yuin were divided into northern (Kurial-Yuin) and southern (Gyangal-Yuin) branches.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yuin people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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