Djabugay

Djabugay people
Aka: Tjapukai (Tindale), Djabuganjdji (Horton) Jaabugay (AIATSIS), Dyaabugay (SIL)
Wet Tropics BioRegion
Hierarchy
Language Family:	Pama–Nyungan
Language Branch:	Yidinic
Language Group:	Djabugay
Group Dialects:	Djabugay, Guluy Ngunbay, Bulway, Yirrgay
Area (approx. 800 km²)
BioRegion:	Wet Tropics
Location:	Far North Queensland
Coordinates:	16°50′S 145°30′E / 16.833°S 145.500°E / -16.833; 145.500Coordinates: 16°50′S 145°30′E / 16.833°S 145.500°E / -16.833; 145.500
Mountains:	Black Mountain (also known as Bunda Gabagn) Macalister Range (also known as Bunda Bundarra) Lamb Range (also known as Bunda Djarruy Gimbul)
Rivers	Barron River (also known as Bana Wuruu), Mowbray River
Other Geological:	Barron Falls (also known as Din Din) Barron Gorge (also known as Djirri Nyundu Nyrrumba) Double Island (also known as Wangal Djungay )
Urban Areas	Kuranda (also known as Ngunbay ), Mount Molloy Port Douglas

The Djabugay people (also known as Djabuganydji or Tjapukai) are a group of Australian Aborigines who are the original inhabitants of mountains, gorges, lands and waters of a richly forested part of the Great Dividing Range including the Barron Gorge and surrounding areas within the Wet Tropics of Queensland.

Djabugay belongs to the Yidinic branch of the Pama–Nyungan language family, and is closely related to Yidin. It shares the distinction, with Bandjalang in north-eastern New South Wales and South East Queensland, and Maung spoken on the Goulburn Islands off the coast of Arnhem Land, of being one of only three languages that lack the dual form. The last speaker with a good knowledge of the language was Gilpin Banning.

Norman Tindale described the territory of the Tjapukai (Djabugay) as extending along the plateau south of and to the east of south of Mareeba, from Barron River, south of Mareeba to Kuranda and north toward Port Douglas. Their western boundary was defined by the margin of the rain forest from Tolga north to Mount Molloy. By 1952, the Djabugay claimed also the coastal strip between Cairns Inlet and Lamb Range, with one horde lived near Redlynch,Cairns.