JitajitaThe Jitajita, otherwise spelt Yitayita, are an indigenous Australian people of southern New South Wales. LanguageThe Yitayita spoke one of the languages of the lower Murray river group that included Dadi Dadi and Kureinji,[1] and is distinctive for the large number of monosyllables in its vocabulary.[2] NameThe tribal name Jitajita is a reduplicative endonym formed from their word for 'no' (jita).[3] Numerous tribes in the area defined themselves in terms of the negative used. Early ethnographers marveled at the variety of words for 'no' among the Riverine tribes, as an index of the differences in their languages. Peter Beveridge remarked:
CountryThe Jitajita lands covered some 4,800 square miles (12,000 km2), north of the Lachlan River from near Booligal - to vicinity of Balranald, west to Carrawathal. They appear to have been closely related to the Muthi Muthi.[3] Their northwestern boundaries reached the edge of the Parintji domain.[4] Alternative names
Source: Tindale 1974 Some words
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