The Gambalang are an

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 o ...

people of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Au ...

Language

Though many speakers now use

Bininj Kunwok Bininj Kunwok is an Australian Aboriginal language which includes six dialects: Kunwinjku (formerly Gunwinggu), Kuninjku, Kundjeyhmi (formerly Gundjeihmi), Manyallaluk Mayali (Mayali), Kundedjnjenghmi, and two varieties of Kune (Kune Dulerayek a ...

dialect in their daily lives, their ancestral language

Gambalang The Gambalang are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language Though many speakers now use Bininj Kunwok dialect in their daily lives, their ancestral language Gambalang language, Gambalang belongs to the Gunwinggic branc ...

belongs to the Gunwinggic branch of the

non-Pama-Nyungan The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

Macro-Gunwinyguan languages The Macro-Gunwinyguan languages, also called Arnhem or Gunwinyguan, are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken across eastern Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Their relationship has been demonstrated through shared morphology ...

. The language is at risk of extinction, with only 40 surviving speakers, its grammar has been described recently by Ivan Kapitonov.

Country

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 ...

estimate their tribal territory as covering some On the coast betwee
Hawkesbury Point
an
Junction Bay
Their inland extension ran to about as far a

To their east across the estuary opening out into the

Arafura Sea The Arafura Sea (or Arafuru Sea) lies west of the Pacific Ocean, overlying the continental shelf between Australia and Western New Guinea (also called Papua), which is the Indonesian part of the Island of New Guinea. Geography The Arafura Sea i ...

were the Gunavidji, the

Gungorogone The Gungorogone are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Name The tribal autonym is formed by an apparent suffix ''gurr-'' and ''-goni'', their word for 'this'. Language Guragone is a non-Pama-Nyungan language belonging t ...

lay southeast, while the

Kunwinjku The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Aboriginal people, one of several groups within the Bininj people, who live around West Arnhem Land to the east of Darwin, Northern Territory. Kunwinjku people generally refer t ...

were to their immediate south, on the west bank of the

Liverpool River Liverpool River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is the largest of the tidal river systems of northern Arnhem Land, which includes two major tributaries, the Tomkinson and Mann Rivers. Geography The river rises at the ea ...

Notable people

Xavier Clarke Xavier Clarke (born 28 September 1983) is a former Australian rules football player who played for St Kilda and Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early life Clarke has Indigenous Australian heritage and his ancestry ca ...

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footballer.

Alternative names

* ''Gunbalang'' * ''Gunbulan'' * ''Walang''

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* * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory