The Gulngai were an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
rainforest people of the state of
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
. They are not to be confused with the
Kuringgai
Kuringgai (also spelled Ku-ring-gai, Kuring-gai, Guringai, Kuriggai) (,) is an ethnonym referring to (a) an hypothesis regarding an aggregation of Indigenous Australian peoples occupying the territory between the southern borders of the Gamilar ...
.
Language
Gulŋay was one of the
Dyirbalic languages
The Dyirbalic languages are a group of languages forming a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are:
*Dyirbalic proper: Dyirbal, Warrgamay
*Nyawaygic: Wulguru, Nyawaygi
At least one of the Lower Burdekin languages, Yuru, may belong to ...
, and a dialect of
Dyirbal.
Country
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
Life
Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived ther ...
set their lands at some , situated around the
Tully River
The Tully River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Far North Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The Tully River rises in the Cardwell Range, part of the Great Dividing Range on the northern boundary of the Kirrama State Fores ...
below
Tully Falls
The Tully Falls, a horsetail chute waterfall on the Tully River, is located in the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Wet Tropics in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia. It formed the eastern boundary of the Dyirbal.
Location and features ...
, and the Murray River. Their southern border lay on the range above
Kirrama.
Alternative names
* ''Kurungai''
* ''Kulngai''
* ''Gulngay''
* ''Tjulngai''
* ''Djulngai''
* ''Mallanpara''
* ''Malanbara''
* ''Tully blacks''
Notes
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland