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Barunggam
Muringam
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Baruŋgam
Extinct (date missing)
Language family
AIATSIS D40 Barunggam, D56

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

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".

Map of Traditional Lands of Australian Aboriginal peoples in SE Qld
Map of traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal peoples around Brisbane.

See also

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