Gulngai

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The Gulngai were an indigenous Australian rainforest people of the state of Queensland. They are not to be confused with the Kuringgai.

Queensland North-east state of Australia

Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the north-east of the country, it is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. To its north is the Torres Strait, with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland. The state is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity, with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres (715,309 sq mi).

Kuringgai

Kuringgai is an ethnonym referring to (a) an hypothesis regarding an aggregation of indigenous Australian peoples occupying the territory between the southern borders of the Gamilaraay and the area around Sydney (b) perhaps an historical people with its own distinctive language, now lost, once located in part of that territory, or (c) people of aboriginal origin who identify themselves as descending from the original peoples denoted by (a) or (b) and who call themselves Guringai.

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Language

Gulŋay was one of the Dyirbalic languages, and a dialect of Dyirbal. [1]

Dyirbalic languages

The Dyirbalic languages are a group of languages forming a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are:

Dyirbal language language

Dyirbal is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by about 29 speakers of the Dyirbal tribe. It is a member of the small Dyirbalic branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. It possesses many outstanding features that have made it well known among linguists.

Country

Norman Tindale set their lands at some 200 square miles (520 km2), situated around the Tully River below Tully Falls, and the Murray River. Their southern border lay on the range above Kirrama. [2]

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

Norman Barnett Tindale AO was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

Tully River river in Queensland, Australia

The Tully River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Tully Falls waterfall

The Tully Falls, a horsetail chute waterfall on the Tully River, is located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Wet Tropics in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia. It formed the eastern boundary of the Dyirbal.

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