buurralgang

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Wiradjuri

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Etymology

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Compare Gamilaraay burralga.

Noun

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buurralgang

  1. brolga (Antigone runbicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda).
    • 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
      Buralgang—a large native bird called Native’s Companion.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34
      Native companion .... burolgang.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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