The Ngombal, also known as the ''Ngumbarl'', 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 Isl ...
people of
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
Language
Adequate documentation of the
Ngombal language is lacking, but the evidence suggests it was one of the
Nyulnyulan languages
The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia. Most languages in this family are extinct, with only three extant languages, all of which are almost extinct.
...
, with
William B. McGregor speculating that it may have belonged to the western branch.
Country
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 estimation, the Ngombal's tribal lands covered some . They were a coastal people with an inland territorial reach of about 30 miles, located between the
Djaberadjabera to their north, the
Nimanburu to the east, the
Yawuru
The Yawuru, also spelt Jawuru, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Language
A Japanese linguist, Hosokawa Kōmei (細川弘明), compiled the first basic dictionary of the Yawuru language in 1988, a ...
to the southeast and the
Djugun to their south.
Alternative names
* ''Ngormbal.''
* ''Ngombaru.''
* ''Ngumbarl.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia
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