# Wayilwan

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Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales

The **Wayilwan** (also rendered **Weilwan** or **Wailwan**; also known as **Ngiyambaa Wayilwan** and **Ngemba Wayilwan**) are an [Aboriginal Australian](/source/Aboriginal_Australian) people of the state of [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales). They are a clan of the [Ngiyambaa](/source/Ngiyampaa) (nee-yam-bar) nation.

## Name

The Wayilwan [ethnonym](/source/Ethnonym) is derived from their word for "no" in the [Ngiyambaa language](/source/Ngiyambaa_language), (*wayil/weil/wail*).[1]

Like other Ngiyampaa people such as the [Wangaaypuwan](/source/Wangaaypuwan), they also referred to themselves according to their home country.[2][3]

## Language

Main article: [Ngiyambaa language](/source/Ngiyambaa_language)

The Wayilwan spoke the dialect of Ngiyambaa called "Ngiyambaa Wayilwan" and as such also called themselves "those who speak Ngiyampaa the Wayilwan way".

## Country

Wayilwan country covered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km2), running along the southern bank of the [Barwon River](/source/Barwon_River_(New_South_Wales)) from [Brewarrina](/source/Brewarrina) to [Walgett](/source/Walgett%2C_New_South_Wales), and along Marra Creek and the [Castlereagh](/source/Castlereagh_River), [Marthaguy](/source/Carinda), and [Macquarie rivers](/source/Macquarie_River). Their southern frontier was at [Quambone](/source/Quambone) and in the vicinity of [Coonamble](/source/Coonamble%2C_New_South_Wales).[1]

## Social organisation

The Wayilwan were divided into [kin groups](/source/Band_society), one of which is known: the *Waiabara*.

## Alternative names

- *Ngemba* (name of their language)

- *Ngemba* (name of their language)

- *Ngiumba* (name of their language)

- *Ngiyambaa* (name of their language)

- *Ngiyambaa Wayilwan* (those who speak Ngiyambaa the Wayilwan way)

- *Waal-won*

- *Wahoon* (misprint)[1]

- *Wailwan*

- *Wailwun*

- *Wali*

- *Waljwan*

- *Wallwan*

- *Weilwan*

- *Weilwun*

- *Wilawun*

- *Wile Wan*

- *Wilwan*

## Notes

### Citations

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974200_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974200_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETindale1974200_1-2) [Tindale 1974](#CITEREFTindale1974), p. 200.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOffice_of_Environment_&_Heritage2011_2-0)** [Office of Environment & Heritage 2011](#CITEREFOffice_of_Environment_&_Heritage2011). sfn error: no target: CITEREFOffice_of_Environment_&_Heritage2011 ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harv_and_Sfn_template_errors))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmartCreaserMonaghan2000_3-0)** [Smart, Creaser & Monaghan 2000](#CITEREFSmartCreaserMonaghan2000). sfn error: no target: CITEREFSmartCreaserMonaghan2000 ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Harv_and_Sfn_template_errors))

## Sources

- Honery, Thomas (1878). "Wailwun Language and Traditions". *[Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland](/source/Journal_of_the_Anthropological_Institute_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland)*. **7**: 245–254. [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2841001](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2841001).

- [Tindale, Norman Barnett](/source/Norman_Tindale) (1974). ["Koamu (QLD)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170703110751/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/koamu.htm). *Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names*. [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-708-10741-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-708-10741-6). Archived from [the original](http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/koamu.htm) on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2017.

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