Unggumi is a non-Pama Nyungan language of the Worrorran family, specifically Western Worrorran, along with Worrorra K17; Umiida K49; Unggarrangu K55; Yawijibaya K53; Winyjarrumi K56 (McGregor and Rumsey, 2009:8).
Leopold Range south of the gorge of the Isdell River; westward to headwaters of Robinson River; southeast to Richenda River; south only to Lennard River and Chestnut Creek (Tindale 1974).
... its southern boundary was south of the Lennard River and took in Windjina Gorge (McGregor in Sutton 1995:100).
The general associations were to the Barker and upper Leonard River drainages. Eastward limits: The association of Unggumi with the Bell Creek area was confirmed in 2007. Southward limits: There was no positive informaton on the southern limits of Unggumi. However sources agreed that Mt Broome and Mt Behn constituted the eastern limits of Bunuba. Westward limits: Sources in 2007 stated that Kimberley Downs homestead was associated with Warrwa, but that Warrwa associations ceased immediately to the east of the homestead. Northward limits: There had been no detailed investigation of northward limits. There was general agreement that Mt Hart homestead probably lay within Unggumi country (Harvey AILEC 0802).
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McGregor, William. 1988 Handbook of Kimberley Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. © Author.
AIATSIS gratefully acknowledge William McGregor for permission to use his material in AUSTLANG.
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).
