Mariamo

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The Mariamo or Marri ammu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Northern Territory federal territory of Australia

The Northern Territory is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands. The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometres (520,902 sq mi), making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 246,700, making it the least-populous of Australia's eight states and major territories, with fewer than half as many people as Tasmania.

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Name

The ethnonym Mariamo/Marri Ammu signifies 'plains language'. [1]

An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms and autonyms, or endonyms.

Language

Mariamo belongs to the Western branch of the Daly River language family.

Western Daly languages

The Western Daly languages are a small family of Australian aboriginal languages that share common grammatical forms. They are:

Daly languages areal group of Aboriginal languages in Northern Territory, Australia

The Daly languages are an areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages. They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.

Country

The Mariamo tribal lands covered some 100 square miles (260 km2) of swampland south of Mount Greenwood. Their status as an in independent tribe has been maintained by both W. E. H. Stanner and Norman Tindale. [2]

William Edward Hanley "Bill" Stanner CMG was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians. Stanner had a varied career that also included journalism in the 1930s, military service in World War II, and political advice on colonial policy in Africa and the South Pacific in the post-war period.

Norman Tindale Australian biologist

Norman Barnett Tindale AO was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Green 1989, p. 7.
    2. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 230.

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