The Jagera, also written Yaggera or Yuggera, is a tribe of Australian Aboriginal people which inhabited the region southwest of the city of Brisbane (including Ipswich) before European settlement of Australia. They are one of the traditional custodians of the land over which much of Brisbane is built.
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Language
Jagera/Yaggera is classified as belonging to the Durubalic subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan languages, but is also treated as the general name for the languages of the Brisbane area of which Turrbal is then considered a dialect. The Australian English word 'yakka' (loosely meaning 'work', as in 'hard yakka') came from the Jagera language (yaga, 'strenuous work').
Country
The Jagera-related peoples inhabited the territories from Moreton Bay to the Bremer River, the Jagera, as a distinct group being concentrated in the Fassifern and Lockyer Creek areas. To their north were Wakka and Gubbi Gubbi peoples and the Bundjalung people bordered them on the south.