The Warruŋu , also known as the Warungu/Warrongo, were an Indigenous Australian people of the northern Queensland rainforest areas south of Cairns.
4-447: (Redirected from Warungu ) Warrongo or Warrungu may refer to: Warrongo people of Queensland, Australia Warrongo language spoken by them Warrangu: River Story , a 2024 album by Dobby Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Warrongo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
8-502: The death of the last speaker Alf Palmer in 1981, is classified as a member of the Maric branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages . Tsunoda Tasaku made a claim for Warungu having "the strongest syntactic ergativity " of all the world's languages. The claim has been challenged by Robert M. W. Dixon who believes that the conversational material on which it is based is vitiated by confusions in
12-620: The informant. Mount Garnet marks their northern border. From there their territory extended southeast along the Herbert River . The Warrongo bore close linguistic and cultural affinities with the Gudjal and Gugu Badhun peoples, all three occupying the Herbert and Upper Burdekin rivers. Like other contiguous groups of this area, the Warrango divided their members into four "skin" sections: Tin
16-455: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warrongo&oldid=1258723402 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Warrongo people The Warrongo language , extinct since
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