Kite and Wurm (2004) list Barunggam as a dialect of Waga-Waga E28. There is some uncertainty around relationship between Barunggam, Muringam D56 and 'Murrungama / Murrumningama / Murrumningana'. Generally the latter are reported as alternative names for Barunggam, but Black and Walsh (1989) connect Murrumningana with Muringam, keeping Barunggam distinct.
Walsh 1981, Wurm 2004 and the Ethnologue do not mention Murrumningana (or variants) but make a distinction between Muringam and Barunggam.
Curr supplies language data for 'the Murrumningama' group, whose location aligns with that of Barunggam (1887, vol. 3, pp. 220-21). Kite and Wurm describe Barunggam (D40) as a Waga-Waga E28 dialect, the others being Wuli-Wuli E89, Djagunda E27, Dala E25, Waga-Waga (which indicates this is used as both a language name and a dialect name), Duungidjawu E20, Nalbo E90 and Giabal D41 (2004:4).
See also Muringam D56.
Headwaters of Condamine River east of Jackson to about Dalby; north about Charley Creek to Dividing Range and west to Wongorgera and Woleebee; south to Tara; at 165 Chinchilla and Jandowae. Their country is on the red soils south and west of the Dividing Range (Tindale 1974).
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Speaker numbers were measured differently across the censuses and various other sources listed in AUSTLANG. You are encouraged to refer to the sources.
Speaker numbers for ‘NILS 2004’ and ‘2005 estimate’ come from 'Table F.3: Numbers of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages (various surveys)' in 'Appendix F NILS endangerment and absolute number results' in McConvell, Marmion and McNicol 2005, pages 198-230 (PDF, 2.5MB).