title: Yagalingu
text: # Yagalingu
  
  The Yagalingu are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland. Their language may have been a dialect of Bidjara.
  
  ## Country
  
  According to Norman Tindale, the Yagalingu had a territorial range of some 8,000 square miles (21,000 $km^2),$ south from the headwaters of the Belyando River south to Avoca. The northern reaches lay around Laglan, while to the west they ran to the Great Dividing Range. Their eastern and southern limits were at the Drummond Range.
  
  ## Social organization
  
  The following clan groups are known
  
  * Wakelbara (eel (wakel) clan, near Laglan
  * Kokleburra
  * Owanburra/Kowanburra/Auanbura) (upper Belyando River).
  
  ## Alternative names
  
  * Wakelbara
  * Kokleburra
  * Owanburra
  * Kowanburra
  * Auanbura
  