The Ngaliwurru 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
Ngaliwurru is closely related to
Jaminjung
The Jamindjung, also spelt ''Djamindjung,'' are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
Jaminjung belongs to the Yirram branch of the non Pama-Nyungan tongues, and is related closely to the language spoken by the Ng ...
, two of the three languages of the
Yirram branch of the
non Pama-Nyungan languages.
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 ther ...
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
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 b ...
, 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''
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory