Ngaygungu people

Ngaygungu people
Aka: Ngai-kungo-i
Wet Tropics BioRegion
Language
Language Family:Pama–Nyungan
Language Branch:Maric
Language Group:Ngaygungu
BioRegion:Wet Tropics
Location:Far North Queensland
Coordinates:17°15′45″S 145°28′37″E / 17.26250°S 145.47694°E / -17.26250; 145.47694
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Ngaygungu people (also known as Ngaygungyi, Ngȋ-koongō-ī[1] or Ngai-kungo-i[2]) are the people from the Atherton, Queensland area who spoke, or whose ancestors once spoke, the Ngaygungu language.[3]

  1. ^ Roth 1898.
  2. ^ Roth 1910, pp. 79–106.
  3. ^ Dixon 2002, p. xxxiii.