Barunggam language

Barunggam
Muringam
RegionQueensland
EthnicityBaruŋgam
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
AIATSIS[1]D40 Barunggam, D56 Muringam
Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal peoples around Brisbane[note 1]

Barunggam (Murrumningama) is an extinct Pama-Nyungan Aboriginal language spoken by the Barunggam people of Queensland in Australia.[2] The Barunggam language shared many words with the neighboring languages, including Jarowair[3] to the east, Wakka Wakka to the north and Mandandanji to the west.[4] Kite and Wurm describe Barunggam as a dialect of Wakka Wakka.[1]

Tindale gives the traditional lands for the Barunggam who spoke the language as:

"Headwaters of Condamine River east of Jackson to about Dalby; north about Charley Creek to Dividing Ranges and west to Wongorgera and Woleebee; south to Tara; at 165 Chinchilla and Jandowae. Their country is on the red soils south and west of the Dividing Range".[5]

Notes

  1. ^ This map is indicative only.

References

  1. ^ a b D40 Barunggam at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. ^ Barunggam, at AIATSIS Language and Peoples Thesaurus.
  3. ^ "Language of the Week: Week Six - Jarowair". State Library of Queensland. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  4. ^ Barunggam body parts.
  5. ^ Norman Barnett Tindale, Barunggam (QLD) Archived 19 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, (South Australian Museum website, 2000).
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