The Djerait were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory
The Djerait language was said to have been mutually intelligible with that of the Mulluk-Mulluk who spoke a Daly river language, being as distant as ancient Greek dialects were to each other. And it was also said to be interchangeable with that spoken by the Pongaponga. [1]
According to Norman Tindale, the Djerait occupied some 500 square miles (1,300 km2) of tribal land on the north shores of Anson Bay, extending north to Point Blaze. [2] Neighbouring tribes were the Mulluk-Mulluk, the Madngella the Pongaponga and the Wogait. [1]
The Jesuit missionary Donald Mackillop stated that the Djerait were a "small but intelligent tribe". [1]
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