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Ngaliwurru People
The Ngaliwurru are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language Ngaliwurru is closely related to Jaminjung, two of the three languages of the Yirram branch of the non Pama-Nyungan languages. Country Norman Tindale assigned to the Ngaliwurru domains a territory of roughly , to the southwest of the Victoria River, and south of Bradshaw. It also included Timber Creek and the treeless plateau terrain westwards beyond Limbunya, Waterloo and the West Baines River. In relatively modern times, the Ngaliwurru moving southwards took over the traditional lands of the former Tjial The Tjial were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory who are now extinct. Country The Tjial's heartland, estimated by Norman Tindale to encompass about , lay around Old Limbunja. They were wedged between the lower Victoria Ri ... people. Alternative name * ''Ngaliwerun'' Notes Citations Sources * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples of the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islander peoples from the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the terms First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia and First Australians are also increasingly common; 812,728 people self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal; 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander; while 4.4% identified with both groups. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and List of country subdivisions by area, the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. The archaeological hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngaliwurru Language
Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000. Phonology Vowels Jaminjung has 4 vowels: Vowel length is not distinctive. The close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages. Consonants Jaminjung has 18 consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wit ...s: External links A corpus of Jaminjung recordingsis archived with the DOBES project. References Notes General * * Yirram languages Endangered indigenous Australian lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaminjung Language
Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1967, about 30 speakers in 1991, and between 50 and 150 speakers in 2000. Phonology Vowels Jaminjung has 4 vowels: Vowel length is not distinctive. The close-mid vowel /e/ only appears in a small number of words, and is probably a loan from surrounding languages. Consonants Jaminjung has 18 consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wi ...s: External links A corpus of Jaminjung recordingsis archived with the DOBES project. References Notes General * * Yirram languages Endangered indigenous Australian l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yirram Languages
The Yirram or Jaminjungan languages, also known as ''Western Mirndi'', are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. The name of these languages is derived from the dual clitic which is ''"yirram"'' in each of the languages. It consists of two languages, the Nungali language and the Jaminjung language. A third language has been proposed, Ngaliwurru, but it is often thought to be merely a dialect of the Jaminjung language Jaminjung is a moribund Australian language spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. There seems to be a steady increase in the number of speakers of the language with very few people speaking the language in 1 .... References Indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory {{ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. Life Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan. Norman attended the American School in Japan, where his closest friend was Gordon Bowles, a Quaker who, like him, later became an anthropologist. The family returned to Perth in August 1917, and soon after moved to Adelaide where Tindale took up a position as a library cadet at the Adelaide Public Library, together with another cadet, the future physicist, Mark Oliphant. In 1919 he began work as an entomologist at the South Australian Museum. From his early years, he had acquired the habit of taking notes on everything he observed, and cross-indexing them before going to sleep, a practice which he continued throughout his life, and which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria River (Northern Territory)
The Victoria River is a river in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory, Australia. Location and features Flowing for from its source, south of the Judbarra / Gregory National Park, until it enters Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea, the Victoria River is the longest singularly named permanent river in the Northern Territory. Part of the area adjoining the river mouth has been identified as the Legune (Joseph Bonaparte Bay) Important Bird Area because of its importance for waterbirds. However, the longest permanent river in the Northern Territory, as defined by international standards, is the Katherine/Daly River. This is a single river with two separating (at the Flora River tributary) European names. This great river was, until recently, deemed as two separate rivers due to the European naming conventions of the time. Its journey begins just south of Jabiru The jabiru ( or ; ''Jabiru mycteria'') is a large stork found in the Americas from Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradshaw Station
Bradshaw Station, most commonly known as Bradshaw's Run, was a pastoral lease that operated as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated about east of Kununurra and south west of Katherine. The leases to lands along the Victoria River were acquired by Joseph Bradshaw in 1894; the property occupied an area of . It is bounded by the Victoria River to the south, Joseph Bonaparte Gulf to the west and the Fitzmaurice River to the north. A second lease adjacent to the station of was granted to Frederick Bradshaw, Joseph's brother, in 1898. Frederick joined his brother in 1898 to stock the property with sheep and both leases, which shared a boundary, were being run as one entity. By 1903 the homestead had been built using Cypress-pine and a herd of 40,000 cattle were supported on the property. Ivan Egoriffe, a Russian, was appointed as station manager at about the same time. Known as Ivan the Terrible he treated Aboriginal workers cruelly and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timber Creek, Northern Territory
Timber Creek, traditionally known as Makalamayi, is an isolated small town on the banks of the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Victoria Highway passes through the town, which is the only significant settlement between the Western Australia border and the town of Katherine to the east. Timber Creek is approximately south of Darwin, in an area known for its scenic escarpments and boab trees. History Pre-European history The Ngaliwurru and Nungali peoples, two groups of Aboriginal Australian groups, are the original inhabitants and traditional owners of the lands surrounding the town. Their way of life remained unchanged for thousands of years until first contact with Europeans in the 19th century. The traditional name for the locality is "Makalamayi".FAHCSITimber Creek Land Claim, Report no. 21 1985 1855: European exploration In September 1855, Augustus Charles Gregory and a party of 19 men reached the mouth of the Victoria River. The party's scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limbunya
Limbunya Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Location The property is situated approximately west of the community of Daguragu and south of Darwin. The property shares a boundary with Waterloo Station to the north and Inverway, Riveren and Bunda Stations to the south. The Daguragu Aboriginal Land Trust bounds Limbunya to the east with the Malngin Aboriginal Land Trust to the west. Description Limbunya occupies an area of and typically supports a herd of 35,000 cattle. Cattle are raised for the live export trade and shipped out from Darwin to markets in Indonesia, Egypt and the Philippines. Split up into 21 paddocks ranging in size from to , the property is also equipped with six sets of processing yards. The property has about of fencing and of internal roads. Stock are watered by 11 bores and 12 dams as well as numerous springs and creeks situated on the property. The homestead is composed of thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tjial
The Tjial were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory who are now extinct. Country The Tjial's heartland, estimated by Norman Tindale to encompass about , lay around Old Limbunja. They were wedged between the lower Victoria River and the upper West Baines River. Social organization R. H. Mathews argued that the Tjial, together with two other tribes of the Victoria River Valley, namely the Bilingara and Kwarandji, shared an identical classificatory pattern for intermarriage. Mathews argued that the system, classifying women into two cycles, each having "perpetual succession within itself," was one characterized by matrilineal descent. His schema, he claimed, was quickly adopted by Francis Gillen and Baldwin Spencer in their analysis of the class system of the Bingongina, which however redeployed the pattern to argue that the latter had but two moieties exhibiting patrilineal descent. A controversy over the interpretation of these data sets arose, with A. R. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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