Kunkalanya
# Kunkalanya

The Kungkalenja (Kunkalanya) were an indigenous Australian people of the Channel Country in the state of Queensland.

## Language

A short list of Kungkalenja words was compiled by W. G. Field and published in 1898.

## Country

Little has been conserved of the Kungkalenja people. They inhabited the area north of the Karanja and Bedourie. Norman Tindale assigns them his estimate of some 2,700 square miles (7,000 $km^2)$ of territory on the Georgina River, running west from Moorabulla to the vicinity of the Mulligan River, and also on Sylvester Creek to an otherwise unidentified place known as Talaera Springs.

## Alternative names

* Kunkulenje.
* Koonkoolenya.
* Koomkoolenya.
* Koonkalinga.
* Koonkalinye.

## Some words

* wolka (sun)
