Yilba



According to Norman Tindale's estimation, the Yilba (a.k.a. Ilba and Jilba) occupied approximately 19,000 square kilometres of country around the Cape and Campaspe Rivesr and Natal Downs, extending as far west as the Dividing Range, north to the Pentland Hills and Seventy Mile Range, as far east asthe Suttor River and south to Lake Buchanan.

While their language appears to be extinctm with no speakers recorded since 1975, it seems to have been a dialect of Biri.
There were at least six kin groups, although Tindale names only three, two of them (Moothaburra and Mungera) differ from his primary sources; he adds Muqkibara, which a branch of the Mian:
Yukkaburra
Wokkulburra (eel people)
Pegulloburra
Mungooburra
Mungullaburra (spinifex people)
Goondoolooburra (emu people)

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