Jarijari

[2] The Jarijari language has been classified as belonging to the Lower Murray Areal Group, together with Kureinji,[3] and to be similar to that spoken by the Watiwati,[4] but reports are contradictory and may not be speaking of the same people.

Some words: According to Norman Tindale, the Jarijari tribal lands covered around 1,900 square miles (4,900 km2) on the western bank of the Murray River, from above Chalka Creek to Annuello in the Mallee.

Their southern frontier ran sound along Hopetoun Lake Korong and Pine Plains.

Extermination proceeds so rapidly, that the regions of the Lower Murray are already depopulated, and a quietude reigns there which saddens the traveller who visited those districts a few years ago.

[a] At least three were reclassified and renamed under a different taxonomy: flathead gudgeon, the Jarijari collundera: Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) and Murray hardyhead (Craterocephalus fluviatilis)[11] Source: Tindale 1974, p. 205