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Wergaia
Wergaia or Werrigia is an indigenous Australian language group in the Wimmera region of north-Western Victoria. Twenty clans made up the Wergaia language,〔http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2012-010〕 which consisted of four distinct dialects: Wudjubalug/Wotjobaluk; Djadjala/Djadjali; Buibadjali; Biwadjali.〔Ian D. Clark, ''Aboriginal Languages and Clans: An Historical Atlas of Western and Central Victoria, 1800–1900'', Monash Publications in Geography Number 37, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Monash University. 1990. ISBN 0-909685-41-X〕 Wergaia was apparently a dialect of the Wemba Wemba language. The people were known as the Maligundidj, which means the people of the Mallee country, referring to the mallee eucalypt bushland which covers much of their territory.〔Ian D. Clark, pp177-183, ''Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859'', Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5〕
Before European settlement in the nineteenth century, the Wergaia-occupied the area that included Lake Hindmarsh, Lake Albacutya, Pine Plains Lake, Lake Werringrin, Lake Corong, Warracknabeal, Beulah, Hopetoun, Dimboola, Ouyen, Yanac, Hattah Lakes and the Wimmera River.
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