Gugu Badhun

Gugu-Badhun

Gugu-Badhun traditional lands
Total population
possibly under 100 (less than 1% of the Australian population, less than 1% of the Aboriginal population)
Regions with significant populations
Australia (Queensland)
Languages
English, formerly Warrongo language and Gugu Badhun language
Religion
Aboriginal mythology

The Gugu-Badhun are an Indigenous Australian people of northern Queensland.

Gugu-Badhun is considered, with the Gudjal language, to be a dialect of the Warrongo subgroup of Greater Maric.

Norman Tindale allocated the Gugu-Badhun roughly 1,300 sq. m. of territory lying east of the Great Dividing Range. He asserted that their northern boundary lay at Mount Garnet, and that their eastward extension stretched as far as Gunnawarra and the Herbert River. He put their southern frontier at the Dry River and Meadowbank.

His definition of the northern boundary was quickly challenged by Robert Dixon and Peter Sutton who stated that the northern boundary was flawed, with its stretch from Mount Garnet to the Herbert River actually being in Warungu territory. The Gugu-Badhun occupied the upper Upper Burdekin River.

The Gugu-Badhun formed the middle section of a linguistic-cultural continuum that extended from the Warrungu to their north to the Gudjal to their south-east.