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Mati Ke, also known as Magati-Ge, Magadige, Marti Ke, Magati Gair, is classified as one of the Western Daly languages, and bearing close affinities to Marringarr and Marrithiyel. [2] In 1983 around 30 fluent speakers of the language survived, [ 3 ] and by the early 2000s, some 50 people were thought to still speak some of it as a second or ...
The Maringarr language (Marri Ngarr, Marenggar, Maringa) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language spoken along the northwest coast of the Northern Territory. Marti Ke (Magati Ke, Matige, Magadige, Mati Ke, also Magati-ge, Magati Gair) lies in the same language category. It is or was spoken by the Mati Ke people.
Murrinh-patha (or Murrinhpatha, literally 'language-good'), called Garama by the Jaminjung, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by over 2,000 people, most of whom live in Wadeye in the Northern Territory, where it is the dominant language of the community.
The Murrinh-Patha conducted a bullroarer ceremony, known secretly as Karwadi, and publicly as the Punj.This was analysed by W. E. H. Stanner in terms of a pattern he discerned underlying the more general rite of sacrifice in other cultures, consisting of (a) something of value consecrated to a spiritual being, and whose aim lies beyond the common ends of life; (b) the object of sacrifice ...
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The Maringar are composed of six clans - the Bindararr, Ngurruwulu, Walamangu, Gamalangga, Malarra and Gurryindi (Gorryindi) peoples. [1]Their society was described in a monograph by the Norwegian ethnographer Johannes Falkenberg, [3] based on fieldwork done in 1950, a work judged by Rodney Needham to be 'a masterly monograph which must immediately be ranked with the classics of Australian ...
The Marranunggu's traditional lands were south of the Daly River. [3] [4]According to Norman Tindale's calculations, the Marinunggo had roughly 250 square miles (650 km 2) of tribal territory around the area of the Dilke Range and running in a northeasterly direction towards the swamplands of the Daly River.
The language of the Amarak, Amurdak, is now virtually extinct, the last known speaker being Charlie Mungulda. [3] It was also known as Wardadjbak , and belongs to the Iwaidja language family . It had two dialects, Urrik and Didjurra .