Yangkaal

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The Yangkaal, also spelt Yanggal, are an Aboriginal Australian people of area of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the state of Queensland.

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Gananggalinda is a variant name of the same group. [1]

Language

The Yangkaal language was also known as Yanggaralda, [2] Janggal, Gananggalinda, Nemarang, and other names. [3] Geoffrey O'Grady grouped it as a variety of Yukulta within the Tangkic language family. [a] The implication was that "Yanggal" was simply an alternative name for "Njangga", which is an alternative ethnonym for the Yanyula (Yanyuwa), from which the word Yanggal may have derived. [5]

Country

The Yangkaal work over 300 square miles (780 km2) of land, both on Forsyth Island and the stretch of coastline opposite, on the mainland, running as far west as Cliffdale Creek mainland opposite. Much of the continental coastland used by the Yangkaal was mangrovial.[ citation needed ]

David Horton reported in The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture that the traditional lands of the Gananggalinda were near Bayley Point and Point Parker on the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Gananggalinda and their neighbours the Yukulta / Ganggalidda have similar culture and language. [6]

Social organisation

The Yangkaal were composed of at least three kin groups:

History of contact

The Yangkaal eventually moved to Mornington Island, where Arthur Capell briefly interviewed one informant, and obtained information, some of which turned out to be unreliable. He was told that their name for their homeland on Forsyth Island was Nemi, from which he deduced that their language was Nemarang. [7] This misapprehension was corrected by Norman Tindale, who explained that this term was the personal name of a Yangkaal person known on the Mornington Island Mission as Edward Nemie, the latter being a distortion of the missionary's word "name". [2] [b]

Alternative names

Some words

Notes

  1. ↑ 'Tangkic Group Jakula-Njangga (Yanggal, Nyangga).' [4]
  2. ↑ 'In 1960 on the highest authority, one of the oldest living Janggal men of Forsyth Island, I learned that Nemarang was not their name. Shortly after the Mornington Island Mission was founded and before the Reverend Wilson was killed by the aborigines, he gave names to many of the natives including Old William, the elder of the Lardiil. Djungidjarudau, father of Edward Namie, on a visit to the new Mission, heard of the new names, asked for and was given a name that he forgot after he went back to his island. The word "name" stuck with him, however, and later it crept into mission records as Namie, hence his son's second name.' [8]

Citations

  1. ↑ G37 Yangkaal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies>
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tindale 1974, p. 170.
  3. ↑ G37 Yangkaal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ↑ O'Grady, Voegelin & Voegelin 1966, p. 54.
  5. ↑ Dixon & Blake 1983, p. 193.
  6. ↑ Horton, David, Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia;1994, Vol. 1, p401.
  7. ↑ Capell 1942, pp. 49–50.
  8. ↑ Tindale 1974, p. 155.
  9. ↑ Capell 1942, p. 50.

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