Wanggeriburra clan

The ethnonym Wanggeriburra has been related to a Yugambeh word, Wanggeri, which refers to the Pretty-faced Wallaby with -burra meaning "people" and thus means "Pretty-faced Wallaby People". This may have been a clan totem or food source that typified their country.

The Wanggeriburra people spoke a dialect, of which over a thousand words have been preserved, of the Yugambeh language. Knowledge of the grammar and vocabulary was recorded by John Allen (Aboriginal name Bullum) with the assistance of John Lane in 1913.[1]

Comparisons with neighbouring clan words lists showed they spoke the same variety of language as the Mununjali.[2]

Partial Yugambeh Clan Map circa 1913

According to John Allen's map their tribal boundaries are said to have extended north to Cedar Creek, west to the Birnam range, south to the Mcacpherson range, with the headwaters of the Coomera River and the Darlington Range on their east.

The Wanggeriburra were located south of the Gugingin clan on the Logan River, in the Tamborine area, north of the Tulgigin, with the Bullongin and Kombumerri to their east.[3]

• Yugambeh people
• Mununjali clan
• Kombumerri clan

• Allen, John (2001). The language of the Wangerriburra and neighbouring groups in the Yugambeh region. Beenleigh Qld: Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation for Culture. ISBN 978-0-9585570-1-6. OCLC 51964234.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)