 Ngaygungu people

Ngaygungu people (also known as Ngȋ-koongō-ī or Ngai-kungo-i) are the people for the Atherton, Queensland area who spoke, or whose ancestors once spoke, the Ngaygungu language.The Ngai-kungo-i were formally identified as a distinct locally indigenous group for Atherton, Queensland by Walter Edmund Roth in October 1898, when he encountered Aboriginal people identifying as Ngai-kungo-i, speaking their own language named Ngai-kungo based in Atherton (which they called Kȃr-kar), and described as having ranged (went "walk-about") up into the Great Dividing Range behind Atherton, crossing the headwaters of the Walsh River (an area they called Balkan) wandering out to the township of Watsonville (an area they called Ilȃnbare).