The Warlmanpa 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 Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
.
Name and people
The Warlmanpa were long missing from the map of Australian aborigines, – there is no direct mention of them in
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 ...
's survey of Australian tribes- and, according to
David Nash, their existence as a distinct group from the
Warlpiri, with a distinct language of their own, was only registered in the latter half of the 20th century.
Language
They spoke
Warlmanpa which is, with
Warlpiri, classified as one of the
Ngarrkic languages.
Country
Warlmanpa country lay in the northern
Tanami Desert
The Tanami Desert is a desert in northern Australia, situated in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
It has a rocky terrain with small hills, and cacti. The Tanami was the Northern Territory's final frontier and was not fully explored b ...
, and though not yet subject to a clear estimation of its extent, is contextualized by setting it within the borderlands that define it from its close neighbours. Working clockwise from the
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 ...
immediately to their north, the
Jingili lay to their northeast, the
Warumungu
The Warumungu (or Warramunga) are a group of Aboriginal Australians of the Northern Territory. Today, Warumungu are mainly concentrated in the region of Tennant Creek and Alice Springs.
Language
Their language is Warumungu, belonging to th ...
east and southeast, the Warlpiri inhabited the area on their south, and southwestern flank, while the
Gurindji were to the west.
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory