Yilba



According to Norman Tindale's estimation, the Yilba (a.k.a. Ilba and Jilba) occupied approximately 19,000 square kilometres of country around the Cape and Campaspe Rivers and Natal Downs, extending as far west as the Dividing Range, north to the Pentland Hills and Seventy Mile Range, as far east as the Suttor River and south to Lake Buchanan.

While their language appears to be extinct with no speakers recorded since 1975, it seems to have been a dialect of Biri.

There were at least six kin groups, although Tindale names only three, two of them (Moothaburra and Mungera) differ from his primary sources; he adds Muqkibara, which is a branch of the Mian:
Yukkaburra
Wokkulburra (eel people)
Pegulloburra
Mungooburra
Mungullaburra (spinifex people)
Goondoolooburra (emu people)

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Cape River
Campaspe River
Natal Downs
(Great) Dividing Range
Pentland Hills
Seventy Mile Range
Suttor River
Lake Buchanan
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