The Kunggara spokeGurdjar, which had two dialects,Gunggara andRip.Gavan Breen did a salvage study of the language, drawing on information obtained during an interview with one of the last speakers, Elsie McKillop, conducted at Bloodwood.[citation needed]
InNorman Tindale's estimation, the Kunggara's tribal territory covered some 1,900 square miles (4,900 km2), centered on theStaaten River and running south to the Smithburne River andDelta Downs. The limits of their inland extension lay around Stirling and Lotus Vale.[1]
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