Maiawali

The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia places the Maiawali (alternatively, Mayuli, Maiali, Majawali, Mailly, Myall, Myallee, Myoli, Miorli, Majuli (error), Puruga (lit.penis people, an exonym reflecting their adoption of circumcision) on the Diamantina River with the Guwa to their north, the Iningai to the east, the Kuungkari to the southeast, the Birria (https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/language-week-week-two-birria) and Karuwali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuwali) to the south, the Pitta-Pitta to the west and the Yanda to the northwest.
Norman Tindale, Aboriginal Tribes of Australia assigns them 32,000 square kilometres, from Davenport Downs and the Diamantina Lakes north to Old Cork, from the Mayne River to Mount Vergemont, and west to Spring Vale. Maiawali country extended as far as Farrars Creek to the southeast and encompassed Connemara and Brighton Downs. They spoke a dialect of Pitta Pitta.


Sources:
AIATSIS AustLang Project: Maiawali (L40): https://aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/L40
AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia
Norman Tindale, Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, pp. 179-180.
Wikipedia: Maiawali people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiawali

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