Gambalang

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The Gambalang are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Language

Though many speakers now use Bininj Gun-Wok dialect in their daily lives, their ancestral language Gambalang belongs to the Gunwinggic branch of the non-Pama-Nyungan Macro-Gunwinyguan languages. The language is at risk of extinction, with only 40 surviving speakers, its grammar has been described recently by Ivan Kapitonov. [1]

Country

Norman Tindale estimate their tribal territory as covering some 600 square miles (1,600 km2) On the coast between Hawkesbury Point and Junction Bay. Their inland extension ran to about 25 miles (40 km) as far as Table Hill. [2] To their east across the estuary opening out into the Arafura Sea were the Gunavidji, the Gungorogone lay southeast, while the Gunwinggu were to their immediate south, on the west bank of the Liverpool River. [3]

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