Marri Tjevin

The Maridjabin (Maridan) or Marrisjabin, ^[1] were an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

Marridjabin is a dialect of Marrithiyel, one of the Western Daly languages. ^[1]

Country

The Maridjabin's territory occupied some 300 square miles (780 km²) predominantly of swampland at mouth of the Moyle River and along the coast near Cape Dombey, and the hinterland for about 20 miles east of that coast. ^[2]

Alternative names

• Murindjabin (exonym applied to them by the Murrinh-Patha)
• Murintjabin
• Murintjaran ^[2]

Notes

Citations

1. Green 1989, p. 8.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 230.

Sources

• Falkenberg, Johannes (1962). Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District. George Allen & Unwin.
• Green, Ian (September 1989). Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory (PDF). ANU PhD.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Maridan (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN   978-0-708-10741-6.