Re: birding-aus Rainbow lorikeets in pine trees

[John Leonard <>]

At 08:27 AM 24/8/99 +1000, you wrote:
>To everyone else out there, on the previous thread of aboriginal names for
>birds, I have been seeing quite a few Gang Gangs around here. Does this name
>have an aboriginal origin? It sounds like it anyway
>
Yes, it's Wiradjuri (western slopes, Lachlan and Murumbidgee valleys);
original either Gang-gang, or Ngang-Ngang, and onomatopoeic.

See Dixon et al, Aboriginal Words in English (OUP)





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