Waanyi

The Waanyi, also spelt Wanyi or Wanji, are an Aboriginal people of the well-watered limestone and sandstone country south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, straddling the border of the Northern Territory and Queensland and including parts of the Gregory River. Norman Tindale estimated their territory at about 25,000 square kilometres, from the upper Nicholson River and Spring and Lawn Hill creeks east to the Barkly River and Bannockburn, west to Old Benmara and south-west to Mount Morgan.

They lay south of the Gunindiri and Garrwa, west of the Injilarija and Nguburinji and east of the Wambaya and Wakaya. Their language forms the southern branch of the Garrwan family, distinct from the surrounding Barkly and Mirndi tongues.