According to Norman Tindale, there are five sub-groups of Burarra people: Anbara (or Anbarra), Marawuraba, Madia, Maringa and Gunadba.
[4] Tindale considered Burarra to be an exonym applied to them by outsiders, and speculated that their "real" name might be Ngapanga.
Despite speaking markedly different languages – one prefixing, the other suffixing – the Burarra and the Yan-nhaŋu have strong sociocultural links.
Ian Keen has said that there are five major differences: The Burarra, according to Tindale, consist of five subgroups: Each of the five have a Yirritja/Dua moiety division.
[1] Source: Tindale 1974, p. 222 Questacon, Australia's national science and technology centre in Canberra, has produced a website about the "people, land, language and traditional technologies of the Burarra people", called Burarra Gathering.