Marulta

The Marulta were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland, Australia.

Language

The Marulta spoke Marrulha, one of several dialects of a Karnic language, similar to Mithaka.^[1][2]

Country

The Marulta were a people of Lake Barrolka, with, according to Norman Tindale, an estimated 3,700 square miles (9,600 km²) of territory, extending south as far as Lake Yamma Yamma, and west to the Beal Range. Their northeasterly reach ran to the vicinity of Opalville and Cooper Creek.^[3]

Alternative name

• Marula^[3]
• Marunga^[4]
• Marrulha^[1]

Notes

Citations

1. Breen 1990, p. 21.
2. Dixon 2002, p. xxxvii.
3. Tindale 1974, p. 181.
4. Howitt & Siebert 1904, p. 124.

Sources

• "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 3 June 2015.
• Breen, Gavan (1990). Salvage Studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal Languages. Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0-858-83401-9.
• Dixon, Robert M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
• Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF). Macmillan.
• Howitt, Alfred William; Siebert, Otto (January–June 1904). "Legends of the Dieri and kindred tribes of Central Australia". Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 34: 100–129. doi:10.2307/2843089. JSTOR 2843089.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Marulta (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.