Nyawigi
According to Norman Tindale, the rainforest-dwelling Nyawigi (a.k.a. Nyawaygi, Nywaigi, or Nawagi) occupied an area of about six thousand square kilometres around Halifax Bay southwest of the Herbert River on the high Sea View Range. According to Robert M. W. Dixon, their territory extended to the coast near Ingham. They may also have inhabited Orpheus Island.
Their neighbours to the north, past Toobanna, Frances Creek and Waterview Creek and over the Herbert River at Halifax and Ingham, were the Biyaygiri. Warrongo country lay to their west, while . To the south, the Warrgamay lived in coastal sclerophyll forest country towards Townsville.
The Nyawagyi seems to have been comprised of seven hordes, with the affix bara indicating belonging. Each probably spoke a distinctive dialect of the common language, which had the smallest number of consonants (twelve) of any Australian language and conserved feature of proto–Pama–Nyungan lost from contiguous languages.
