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| data26 = KalareGalari ([[Lachlan River|Lachlan]]), [[Wambuul Macquarie River|Wambuul Macquarie]], Marrambidya ([[Murrumbidgee River|Murrumbidgee]]), MillewaMilawa ([[Murray River|Murray]])

The Wiradjuri [[exonym and endonym|autonym]] is derived from {{Lang|wrh|wiray}}, meaning "no" or "not", with the [[comitative]] suffix {{Lang|wrh|-dhuray}} or {{Lang|wrh|-dyuray}} meaning "having".{{sfn|Donaldson|19846p1984|p=26}} That the Wiradjuri said {{Lang|wrh|wiray}}, as opposed to some other word for "no", was seen as a distinctive feature of their speech, and several other tribes in New South Wales, to the west of the [[Great Dividing Range]], are similarly named after their own words for "no".{{sfn|Thieberger|McGregor|1994|pp=79–80}} A similar distinction was made between [[Romance languages]] in [[France in the Middle Ages|medieval France]], with the ''[[Occitan language|langues d'oc]]'' and the ''[[langues d'oïl]]'' distinguished by their word for "yes".

Tindale says that some of the later terms had entered the literature, although not based on fieldwork and lacking Aboriginal support, as artificial, collective names for his "Great Tribes" of New South Wales. He writes that there was such a "literary need for major groupings that [Fraser] set out to provide them for New South Wales, coining entirely artificial terms for his 'Great tribes'. These were not based on field research and lacked aboriginal support. His names such as Yunggai, Wachigari and Yakkajari can be ignored as artifacts...During the 1890s the idea spread and soon there was a rash of such terms...Some of these have entered, unfortunately, into popular literature, despite their dubious origins."{{sfn|Tindale|Jones|1974|pp=156, 191, 200}}

He lists Wiradjuri (NSW) as one of these artificial names, along with Bangarang{{efn|R. H. Mathews' spelling}} ([[Pangerang]]) (Vic.); [[Booandik]] (Vic. & SA); Barkunjee ([[Barkindji]]) (NSW), [[Kurnai]] (Vic.), Thurrawal ([[Dharawal]]) (NSW), and Malegoondeet (?) (Vic.).{{sfn|Tindale|Jones|1974|pp=156, 191, 200}}{{sfn|Tindale|1974}} He also mentions [[Robert Hamilton Mathews|R. H. Mathews]], [[Alfred William Howitt|A. W. Howitt]] and [[John Mathew]] as promulgators of the "nations" concept. However, Tindale refers to Wiradjuri in his own work (p. 200): "Wiradjuri 'Wiradjuri (Wi'raduri)".{{sfn|Tindale|Jones|1974|pp=156, 191, 200}}{{sfn|Tindale|1974}}

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