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Barungguan
The Barungguan are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of Northern Queensland. The name is associated with three languages: Ganganda, Umpithamu and Morrobolam. Name The anthropologist Donald Thomson classified them (speaking of them as the ''Yintjinga'') as one of what he called the Kawadji peoples. Country According to Norman Tindale, writing in 1974, the Barungguan had about of tribal land, on the western side of Princess Charlotte Bay and extending northwards towarCape Sidmouth Their furthest northern limit appears to have been around the Rocky River, beyond which they rarely ventured. Social organisation The Barungguan were organized into clans the names of at least two of which are known: * ''Umbuigamu'' * ''Umbindhamu'' As with the neighbouring Walmbaria, tooth avulsion was practiced on all members of either sex among the Barungguan, with either the right or left upper incisor extracted for ritual purposes. Alternative names * ''Baka.'' ( Kaant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umpithamu Language
Umpithamu, also spelt Umbindhamu, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. In July 2020, ''A Dictionary of Umpithamu'' was published, compiled by Flemish linguist Jean-Christophe Verstraete, with main language consultants Florrie Bassani and her niece Joan Liddy. Classification Though generally accepted as a branch of the Paman languages, Dixon believes it to be an isolate. According to Rigsby (1997), Umpithamu shares some grammatical features with the other languages spoken by the Lamalama people, but it shares more lexicon with Ayapathu and Umpila. In 2008, Verstraete wrote that there were four languages associated with the Lamalama people: Umpithamu, Morrobolam, Mba Rumbathama (Mbarrumbathama, Lamalama) and Rimanggudinhma language (Mbariman-Gudhinma). In 2020, he spoke of five languages associated with the Lamalama people, but the name of the fifth is not recorded in the article. He is quoted by Austlang from his 2018 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morrobolam Language
The Morrobolam language, formerly known as Morrobalama and Umbuygamu, is a possibly extinct Paman language from Princess Charlotte Bay in far-north Queensland in Australia which was spoken by a group the Lamalama people. History In 1898, the Aboriginal population of the Princess Charlotte Bay area numbered around 1,000. However, white settlement of the region caused them to lose almost all of their traditional lands. The many Aboriginal groups of the region were forcibly moved to missions and were exposed to diseases like syphilis and Spanish influenza. This resulted in the Aboriginal population of the region declining by 90% from 1898 levels. In the 1930s many of the surviving Aboriginal people were moved to the Old Lockhart River Mission. Those Aboriginal people who remained in their territory were from the several language groups of the Lamalama people: Morrobalam, Lamalama (also known as Mba Rumbathama), and Umpithamu (Umbindhamu) peoples, and lived there until 1961. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawadji
The Uutaalnganu people, also known as Night Island Kawadji, are an Aboriginal Australian group of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. The name is also used collectively for several peoples in this area, such as the Pontunj / Jangkonj (Yanganyu), whose language is unconfirmed. Name ''Kawadji'' formerly referred to a people who inhabited Night Island and the coastal strip opposite. It now refers primarily to a modern aggregation of six peoples, collectively known by the same ethnonym ''kawadji'' which means "people of the sandbeach" (''pama malnkana''). These groups, the Umpithamu/Koko Ompindamo, Pakadji, Yintyingka, Otati, Umpila and Pontunj are the traditional owners and users of the coastal areas east of the Great Dividing Range of northeastern Cape York from Oxford Bay to Princess Charlotte Bay. History The traditional Kawadji of Night Island were a small population and intermarried with clans of the mainland Barungguan. The Night Island Kawadji were known fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walmbaria
The Walmbaria are an indigenous Australian people of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. Name The Walmbaria presently represent themselves as Dingaal, and in land claims the Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation defines the Dingaal they represent as adult people of the Dingaal clan or people or community having a Dingaal patrilineal descent, or who were adopted by such a person, A Dingaal father is someone who descends on their father's side from any of the Baru, Yoren or Charlies families. Language The Walmbaria name for their language was, according to Norman Tindale, ''Yalgawara'', which was spoken in two dialect versions, one for the mainland branch, the other for the islanders. Morer recent work has preferred the term ''Gambilmugu''. Country The Walmbaria's traditional lands are estimated to have encompassed approximately , extending over the reefs and Flinders island group north of Princess Charlotte Bay. Their southern limits were between a site called Alumukuan in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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