The Marranunggu are an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Isl ...
people and language group, 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 Aust ...
.
Language
Marranunggu is classified as one of the dialects of the
Marranji group of the
Western Daly languages, together with Menhthe and Emmi.
Country
The Marranunggu's traditional lands were south of the
Daly River
According to
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 ther ...
's calculations, the Marinunggo had roughly of tribal territory around the area of the Dilke Range and running in a northeasterly direction towards the swamplands of the Daly River.
Alternative names
* ''Marranunga''
* ''Maranunggo''
* ''Marranunngo''
* ''Maranunga''
* ''Maranungo''
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory