The Ngarinman or Ngarinyman people 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 Islands ...
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 ...
who spoke the
Ngarinyman language
Gurindji is a Pama–Nyungan languages, Pama–Nyungan language spoken by the Gurindji people, Gurindji and Ngarinyman people in the Northern Territory, Australia. The language of the Gurindji is highly endangered, with about 592 speakers remaini ...
.
Country
According to an estimate made by
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 ...
, the Ngarinman held some of territory. Their central domain was the
Wickham River
The Wickham River is an ephemeral river, located in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory in Australia.
Course and features
The headwaters of the Wickham River are situated on an area of rugged stony hills and a sandstone p ...
, an early writer, W. Willshire, placing them to the west of that ephemeral watercourse. Tindale adds that they inhabited the area of the
Upper Victoria River, about Jasper Creek, and to the west of the
Victoria River Downs, and places their southern boundary at ''Munjun'' (Mount Sanford). Their western frontier lay at
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 ...
.
Language
An
(AIATSIS) project to counteract loss of Indigenous languages has helped produce a Ngarinyman to English Dictionary in 2019.
[url=https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/ngarinyman-english-dictionary/]
Alternative names
* ''Ngainman, Ngainmun.''
* ''Ngrainmun.''
* ''Hainman.'' (local white
exonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...
)
* ''Hyneman.''
* ''Narinman, Nariman.''
See also
*
Ngumpit
The Gurindji are an Aboriginal Australian people of northern Australia, southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory's Victoria River region.
Language and culture
Gurindji is one of the eastern Ngumbin languages, in the Ngumbin-Yapa su ...
, a name used by the
Gurindji Gurindji may refer to:
* Gurindji, Northern Territory, a locality in Australia
*Gurindji people, an Australian Aboriginal people
**Gurindji language, the language of the Gurindji people
**Gurindji Kriol language, the main language now spoken by Guri ...
,
Malngin
The Malngin are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Malngin language was a dialect of Gurindj.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated their tribal lands to have encompassed some and placed their wester ...
,
Bilinara
The Bilinarra, also spelt Bilingara and Bilinara, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
The Bilinarra language is classified as an eastern variety of one of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages. It is mutually ...
,
Mudburra
The Mudburra, also spelt Mudbara and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
Mudburra is one of the far eastern forms of the Pama-Nyungan Ngumbin languages.
Country
The Mudburra people live i ...
and Ngarinyman peoples to refer to themselves as a group
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory