The Ngalakgan 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 ...

people of the

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 ...

Language

Ngalakgan is generally classified as a member of the Gunwinyguan family.

Country

Ngalakgan territory covered an estimated , north of the

Roper River The Roper River is a large perennial river located in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory of Australia. Location and features Formed by the confluence of the Waterhouse River and Roper Creek, the Roper River rises east of Mataranka ...

as far as Mainoru, and ran from east of the Wilton River to the upper Maiwok and Flying Fox creeks. The

Jawoyn The Jawoyn, also written Djauan, are an Australian Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Bagala clan are of the Jawoyn people. Language Jawoyn, known as Kumertuo, is a non- Pama–Nyungan language that belongs t ...

lay directly west, the Dalabon to the northwest, the

Rembarrnga The Rembarrnga people, also spelt Rembarunga and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language The Rembarrnga language Rembarrnga (Rembarunga) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the ...

to their immediate north, the

Ngandi The Ngandi were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. The Ngandji are another tribe, and the two are not to be confused. Country The Ngandi's lands, some 1,500 sq-miles in extent, encompassed the area around the upper Wilt ...

and Yukul to their east, while the Alawa lay on their southern flank.

Ethnography

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 ...

was the earliest ethnographer to work directly with, and study, the Ngalakgan, in 1922 during his first fieldwork trip.

Alternative names

* ''Ngalagan, Ngalakan. Ngalarkan'' * ''Nalakan, Nalagen'' * ''Nala-nalagen'' * ''Nullakun, Nullikan, Nullikin'' * ''Ngulkpun''

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