Gudjal

The Gudjal spoke a dialect of the Warrongo subgroup of Greater Maric.{{sfn|Dixon|2002|p=xxxiii}} The materials surviving from earlier periods are not sufficient to reconstruct the language on its own, and arrangements were made, as part of a revitalization programme, to adopt terms and usages still attested for the Gugu-Badhun language.{{sfn|Hobson|2010|p=96}}

Gudjal traditional lands encompassed an estimated {{convert|7,500|mi2|km2}} on both sides of the Great Dividing Range, taking in At Mount Sturgeon, Mount Emu Plains, the Lolworth and Reedy Springs Stations. It includes the upper Clarke River. The eastern extension ran close to Charters Towers.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=178}}

As colonial settlements began, with their lands been expropriated for cattle runs, the Gudjal were forced southwards towards Hughenden and Pentland.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=178}}

The Gudjal created rock art galleries; one conspicuous example can be found in the vicinity of Charters Towers.{{sfn|Menghetti|1984|p=4}}

• Gudjali
• Koochul-bura{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=178}}

• younga (mother)
• wurboon (white man)
• galbin (children){{sfn|Lukin|1886|p=436}}

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• {{Cite book| title = Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development

| last = Dixon | first = Robert M. W.

| author-link = Robert M. W. Dixon

| year = 2002

| volume = 1

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&pg=PR33

| isbn = 978-0-521-47378-1

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• {{Cite book| title = Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages

| last = Hobson | first = John Robert

| year = 2010

| publisher = Sydney University Press

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V-ku44jjLEQC&pg=PA96

| isbn = 978-1-920-89955-4

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = The Clarke River

| last = Lukin | first = Gresley

| title = The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent

| editor-last = Curr | editor-first = Edward Micklethwaite | editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr

| year = 1886

| volume = 2 | pages = 436–437

| publisher = J. Ferres | location = Melbourne

| chapter-url = https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf

}}

• {{Cite thesis| type = Ph.D. thesis| title = Charters Towers

| last = Menghetti | first = Diane

| year = 1984

| publisher = James Cook University

| url = http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/1571/2/02chapter1.pdf }}

• {{Cite thesis| type = MA thesis| title = Gugu-Badhun and its neighbours: A Linguistic Salvage Study

| last = Sutton | first = Peter

| author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist)

| year = 1973

| publisher = Macquarie University MA

| url = http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/func/cyp/sutton/1973gugubadhun.pdf

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Kutjala (QLD)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names

| year = 1974

| publisher = Australian National University

| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kutjala.htm

}}

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• [https://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/permalink/61SLQ_INST/11l3i0/alma99183677620602061 Gudjal Language Recordings], State Library of Queensland

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