Walangama



According to Norman Tindale, the Walangama (a.k.a. Karan (scrublanders), Wahlongman, Wallankammer, Wollangama, Wollangama, Wollongurmee) occupied about 8,300 square kilometres of country around the Carron River and Walker Creek, stretching from around Maggieville and Normanton to an eastern frontier around Croydon. Their southern limits lay around the headwaters of Belmore Creek, with a northern boundary along the southern side of the Gilbert River extending as far as Stirling.

They spoke an extinct Paman language which, according to local police inspector William Armit, differed markedly from the surrounding tribal languages. Norman Tindale refers to an extensive vocabulary of Walangama collected from informants in 1938; the Wikipedia page describes it as "poorly attested".


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