Yaroinga

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The Yaroinga (Yuruwinga) are an

Yaroinga country covered, according to Tindale's estimation, some 11,900 square miles (31,000 km²), straddling both the Northern Territory and Queensland, at such places in the latter state as Urandangi and Headingly, and as far east as Mount Isa. Their northern limits were around Lake Nash. Westwards they were present at Barkly Downs, Mount Hogarth and Argadargada (now on the northern boundary of Manners Creek Station).^[1]

Language

They spoke the

• Manda. A southern horde in the vicinity near Urandangi

Alternative names

• Jaroinga
• Yarroinga
• Yaringa (a creek name)
• Yorrawinga
• Yarrowin
• Jurangka/Yurangka (
  exonym
  ).
• Manda
• Pulanja. (language name)
• Bulanja, Bulanu^[1]

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