Ngura is a disputed and possibly spurious ethnic and language designation applied to several extinct language varieties of central Australia; the name, short for Ngurawarla, means empty camp, referring to lands abandoned after a massacre. Linguist Claire Bowern's research reassigns the varieties once grouped under this label: the Wilson River language to Eastern Karnic, the Bulloo River language to an unclassified Karna-Mari fringe language, and Badjiri probably to the Maric languages, concluding that the varieties called Ngura do not form a coherent group.
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