Gungganyji

The Guŋgañji, also transcribed Gungganyji or written as Kongkandji, are an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

Language

The Guŋgañji spoke Gungay, a dialect of the Yidiny language.[1]

Country

Norman Tindale's estimate of Guŋgañji lands sets them at 150 square miles (390 km²). They were rainforest people living around the Cape Grafton peninsula, west of the Prior Range, and their southern extension ran down to Palmer Point (Wararitji) and the mouth of Mulgrave River.[2]

Alternative names

• Kunggandji, Kunggandyi.
• Kungganji, Kungandji, Koongangie.
• Goonganji, Goonganjee.
• Gunggay.
• Kooganji.
• Koo-gun-ji.[2]
• Gurugulu.

Notes

Citations

1. Dixon 2015, p. 11.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 177.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2011). Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-02504-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2015). Edible Gender, Mother-in-law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidiñ, and Warrgamay. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-198-70290-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kongkandji (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)