Wimaranga
The Wimaranga, also known as the Yuupngati or Nggerikudi, were an Indigenous Australian people of the western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.Language
Apart from the oral Jupangati language, the Jupangati employed a version of Australian sign language, and Walter Roth recorded some 24 examples in 1900.Country
The Jupangati dwelt over of land south of the Wenlock, formerly Batavia, River on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. Their territory extended as far as Duyfken Point and included the Pennefather River district between Port Musgrave and Albatross Bay. To their south were the neighbouring Windawinda people.There are in the ethnographic literature many names, or spelling variants, used to designate the Jupangati
- Yuupngati, Yupangati, Yupungati
- Yupnget, Yupungatti, Yopngadi
- Nggerikudi, Nggirikudi, Ngerikudi, Niggerikudi
- Ra:kudi
- Angadimi, Angutimi
- Wimarangga, Wimaranga.
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