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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 ) , 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, and a dialect of Dyirbal.


Country

Norman Tindale 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''


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* * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Queensland