Barunggam (Murrumningama) is an extinct Aboriginal language spoken by the Barunggam people of

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in Australia. The Barunggam language shared many words with the neighboring languages, including

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west West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

. Kite and Wurm describe Barunggam as a dialect of

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

"Headwaters of
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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
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. Their country is on the red soils south and west of the Dividing Range". Norman Barnett Tindale
Barunggam (QLD)
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website, 2000).

Map of Traditional Lands of Australian Aboriginal peoples in SE Qld

References

External links

Bibliography of Barunggam language and people resources
at the

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Waka–Kabic languages Extinct languages of Queensland {{ia-lang-stub