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Wulguru/Manbarra was one of two Nyawaygic languages and constitutes the fourth class of the Herbert River languages, according to Robert M. W. Dixon. [2] The surviving vocabulary of the Manbarra language, mainly collected by Ernest Gribble in 1932, indicates that it had a roughly 50% lexical overlap with Nyawaygi.
Palm Island and Townsville. Wulguru, (also known as Manbara, Manbarra, Korambelbara, Mun ba rah, Nyawaygi or Wulgurukaba) is an Australian Aboriginal language, now extinct, that was spoken by the Wulgurukaba (or Manbarra) people around the area around present day Townsville, Queensland, on the east coast of Australia.
Bindal is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family. [3] Bowern [4] suggests that it might have been a Maric language. Gavan Breen [3] has classified it as one of the Lower Burdekin languages yet presumes that one of two Lower Burdekin languages, which he concluded were not Maric, is Bindal.
Aboriginal peoples such as the Wulgurukaba, Bindal, Girrugubba, Warakamai and Nawagi originally inhabited the Townsville area. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Wulgurukaba claim to be the traditional owners of the Townsville city area; the Bindal had a claim struck out by the Federal Court of Australia in 2005.
Bindal (Bendalgubba, Nyawaygi) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of North Queensland. [1] The Bindal language region included the area from Cape Cleveland extending south towards Ayr and the mouth of the Burdekin River , encompassing the landscape within the boundaries of the Townsville City Council and Burdekin Shire Council .
The Kaurareg lie in the lower Western island group among the 5 basic ethno-culturally distinct groups that constituted the traditional world of the Torres Strait Islanders, the others being the Saibailgal, Dœwanalgal and Bœigulgal (Top West islanders), the Maluigal (Mid-West islanders), Kulkalgal (Central Islanders) and Meriam Le (Eastern Islanders). [3]
Gugu Badhun people have experienced colonisation and dispossession from land, but their story "is a story of achievement in the face of adversity". [ 1 ] The first European contact with Gugu Badhun people was Ludwig Leichhardt 's exploratory party in 1845, making them among the first inland Aboriginal nations in Northern Australia to encounter ...
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