The Wariangga , also written Warriyangka , are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region in Western Australia .
3-577: The Warriyangka spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta , the other members of the dialect continuum being the Thiin , Djiwarli and Tharrkari . According to Norman Tindale 's estimation the Wariangga's tribal lands stretched over approximately 1,700 square miles (4,400 km) in the Gascoyne region , covering areas of the upper Lyons River , and including also Gifford and Minnie Creeks , Edmund and
6-523: Is a partly extinct dialect cluster spoken in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia . There were four varieties, which were distinct but largely mutually intelligible. The four were: The name mantharta comes from the word for "man" in all four varieties. The following is of the Thargari dialect: As of 2020 , the Warriyangga dialect is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of
9-814: The area east of Maroonah . Tindale states also that they held to a strict maintenance of boundaries. Their neighbours were the Tenma to the north, the Dyiwali to their northeast, the Ninanu directly east, the Watjarri southeast, the Malgaru at their southern limits, and the Tharrkari due west. The Wariangga did not practice circumcision. Their marriage system was described by Daisy Bates . Source Tindale 1974 , p. 259: Mantharta language Mantharta
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