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Maramanindji

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The Marimanindji are an indigenous Australian tribe of the Northern territory. Little is known of them.

Name

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The anthropologist "Bill" Stanner thought that other attested tribal names, Maritjamiri and Mangikurungu, properly belonged to the Marinmanindji.[1] Norman Tindale noted a similarity between their name and that of the Nanggikorongo also identified in this area, but did not draw any conclusion, since adequate material to clarify the overlap was not available.[2]

Language

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Marimanindji was a dialect within the Marrithiyel language cluster and is now virtually extinct.[3]

Country

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Marimanindji ranged to the south of Hermit Hill, in the central Daly River area.[2] Later work indicated that they lived south of both the Daly and Darwin rivers, to the west, and near the headwaters of the Muldiva river.[3]

People

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They are generally grouped as one of the Marrithiyal

Alternative names

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  • Maramanandji
  • Maramarandji
  • Marimanindu
  • Marramaninjsji
  • Marramaninyshi
  • Murinmanindji[3]

Notes

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Citations

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  1. ^ Tindale 1974, p. 239.
  2. ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 230.
  3. ^ a b c Simons & Fennig 2017.

Sources

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  • Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2017). "Marimanindji". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (4th ed.). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Marimanindji (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.