Sutton (1973:44) says that a wordlist by Tindale (1938) indicates that this should be included in the Mari subgroup. Similarly, Breen (forthcoming paper on Biri) reports that the Tindale 'Nguri' wordlist shows that it is very closely related to Bidjara E37, which belongs to the Maric group.
Upper Maronoa River from Mount Elliot and Donnybrook north to Merivale on the western side of the Dividing Range; west to Hillside and Redford. Their territory is bounded on the northeast by the summit of the Dividing Range, on their northwest are the steep cliffs and deep gorges of the Chesterton Range. They were not on the upper Warrego River as stated by Mathews (Tindale 1974).
... the south-east, near the Moonie River (Barlow 1872).
... the Langlo River, Maranoa River, Nebine Creek and at Wyandra (Breen's Batyara informant).
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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).
