The people of the Adelaide plains are known as the Kaurna people in contemporary times, but the Kaurna nation is made up of various tribal clan groups, each with their own parnkarra district of land, each having had their own dialectal form of language.
O pobo das chairas de Adelaide é coñecido como pobo kaurna no presente, pero este está composto por varios grupos tribais, cada un co seu propio distrito parnkarra e coa súa propia forma dialectal da lingua.