The Ngolokwangga 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 ...
.
Language
The Ngolokwangga spoke
Mulluk-Mulluk, one of the
Daly languages
The Daly languages are an areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages. They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Classification
In the lexicostatistic classification ...
.
Country
The Ngolokwangga lay inland from the Pongaponga, and held sway over, 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 ...
, an estimated of territory running along both sides of the
Daly River.
People
It has been conjectured that the
Yunggor
The Yunggor were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language
The Yunggor spoke a dialect of Matngele language, Matngele, one of the Daly languages. The language has died out, and was recorded in the 1960s only from two abo ...
may have been a clan of the Ngolokwangga. According to the 2006 Australian census, the Ngolokwangga numbered 37.
Alternative names
* ''Ngulukwongga, Ngulugwongga''
* ''Mulukmuluk, Mullukmulluk''
* ''Malak Malak, Mallak-mallak, Malag-Malag, Mullik-mullik, Mollak-mollak, Malack-malack''
* ''Djiramo''. (a
horde
Horde may refer to:
History
* Orda (organization), a historic sociopolitical and military structure in steppe nomad cultures such as the Turks and Mongols
** Golden Horde, a Turkic-Mongol state established in the 1240s
** Wings of the Golden Hord ...
name)
* ''Valli-valli''. (a native
toponym
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of '' toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...
for the lower Daly River).
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory