Indigenous group of people in Australia
The Marulta were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland , Australia .
Language
The Marulta spoke Marrulha , one of several dialects of a Karnic language , similar to Mithaka .
Country
The Marulta were a people of Lake Barrolka, with, according to Norman Tindale , an estimated 3,700 square miles (9,600 km2 ) of territory, extending south as far as Lake Yamma Yamma , and west to the Beal Range. Their northeasterly reach ran to the vicinity of Opalville and Cooper Creek .
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Sources
"AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia" . AIATSIS . 3 June 2015.
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Howitt, Alfred William (1904). The native tribes of south-east Australia (PDF) . Macmillan .
Howitt, Alfred William ; Siebert, Otto (January–June 1904). "Legends of the Dieri and kindred tribes of Central Australia". Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 34 : 100– 129. doi :10.2307/2843089 . JSTOR 2843089 .
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Marulta (QLD)" . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6 .