title: Muringura people
text: # Muringura people
  
  The Muringura, or Murrinh-Kura, were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
  
  ## Country
  
  According to Norman Tindale's estimate, the Muringura had some 800 sq. miles of territory in the area east of the Macadam Range, and running along the coastal swamps bordering the around at the mouth of the Fitzmaurice River. Their northern borders lay on the Moyle River divide.
  
  ## People and language
  
  The Muringura spoke a distinct dialect, traces of which remain in the speech of descendants, after their group was assimilated into the larger Murrinh-Patha group. .
  
  ## Alternative names
  
  * Murinkura.
  