Yirawirung is located on the upper reaches of the Murray River in South Australia, close to the NSW and Victorian border.
Yirawirung lies west of the Ngintait language (on the Victorian border), east of the closely related language / dialect Ngawadj and north of the other closely related language / dialect Ngarkat.
AIATSIS id : S.12
VARIATIONS
Eramwir-rangu, Eraweerung, Erawirrangu, Erawirung, Erawiruck, Jeraruk (name of a group), Jirau, Jirawirung, Juju (of the Maraura ‘ju:’ = no), Meru (‘meru’ = man, a general term), Pomp-malkie, Rankbirit (name of a group), Willoo, Wilu (name of a group), Yerraruck, Yiran (misprint), Yirau, Yirawirung (used by AIATSIS), You-you, Yuyu.
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The above map is based upon the Horton Indigenous Map of Australia © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996. The full map is available on the AIATSIS website. The locations of the languages of SA, as stated on the this website are not intended for Land Claim use, and are an approximate guide only. Individual language project locations are based on information from publicly available MILR (ILS) documents.