Gugu-Badhun

Gugu-Badhun
Gugu-Badhun traditional lands
Total population
possibly under 100
(less than 1% of the Australian population, less than 1% of the Aboriginal population)
Regions with significant populations
 Australia
(Queensland)
Languages
English, formerly Warrongo language and Gugu Badhun language
Religion
Aboriginal mythology

The Gugu-Badhun, also written Kokopatun, are an Indigenous Australian people of northern Queensland.

Language

Gugu-Badhun is considered, with the Gudjal language, to be a dialect of the Warrongo subgroup of Greater Maric.[1]

Country

Norman Tindale allocated the Gugu-Badhun roughly 1,300 sq. m. of territory lying east of the Great Dividing Range. He asserted that their northern boundary lay at Mount Garnet, and that their eastward extension stretched as far as Gunnawarra and the Herbert River. He put their southern frontier at the Dry River and Meadowbank.[2]

His definition of the northern boundary was quickly challenged by Robert Dixon and Peter Sutton who stated that the northern boundary was flawed, with its stretch from Mount Garnet to the Herbert River actually being in Warungu territory.[3] The Gugu-Badhun occupied the upper Upper Burdekin River.

People

The Gugu-Badhun formed the middle section of a linguistic-cultural continuum that extended from the Warrungu to their north to the Gudjal to their south-east.[4]

Alternative names

  • Pa.tm.
  • Koko Padun.
  • Jullanku.(?) [2]

Notes

    Citations

    Sources

    • Dixon, Robert M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Volume 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
    • James, Robert Andrew (2009). A modern history of the Gugu Badhun people and their country (PDF) (MA thesis). James Cook University.
    • Menghetti, Diane (1984). Charters Towers (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). James Cook University.
    • Sutton, Peter (1973). Gugu-Badhun and its neighbours: A Linguistic Salvage Study (PDF) (MA thesis). Macquarie University MA.
    • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Kokopatun (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.


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