The Nungali, otherwise known as the Ilngali (Jilngari, Yilngari), 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 ...

Name

The name Nungali, now adopted as the general term, differs from the other

ethnonym An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...

for these people only in having a prefix attached to it.

Language

Nungali is distantly 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 ...

and like the latter is one of the non Pama-Nyungan tongues, usually classified as one of the ''Djamindjungan/Yirram'' family of languages. It is thought to be virtually extinct.

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