Awarai

The Norwegian explorer Knut Dahl wrote down a short list of vocabulary of the Awarai language.

The Awarai tribal lands took in some {{convert|1,400|mi2|km2}} of territory, between Mount Shoebridge and the Central Tableland.{{sfn|Dahl|1926|p=128}} Their northern boundary was 46 miles south of Darwin,{{efn|"Between some tribal areas there is a seemingly neutral zone or strip where members of more than one tribe may travel without the imputation of trespass. Parkhouse (1936:18) has drawn attention to one such belt between the Larakia tribe whose southern boundary ostensibly lies at Darwin River, 43 miles (74 km.) south of Darwin while the northern boundary of the Awarai horde of the Wulwulam is on a branch of the Finniss River 54 miles (86 km.) south of the same place." {{harv|Tindale|1974|p=77}}}} on the Darwin River near the Adelaide–Darwin railway line and 10 miles north of Rum Jungle. The southern limits were at Brocks Creek, where their border met that of the Awinmul.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}}

The Warai had arrangements to supply the Wogait with women for marriage.{{sfn|Dahl|1926|pp=128,173}}

According to Norman Tindale, they stood in fear of the Agigondin horde of the Wulwulam, which however incorporated them eventually as a subtribe.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}}

• Awarrai, Awarra
• Warai, Warei, Warrai

Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=221}}

• nguk (1) tobacco (2) shit.{{sfn|Dahl|1926|p=174}}

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• {{Cite book| title = In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land

| last = Dahl | first = Knut | year = 1926

| author-link = Knut Dahl

| publisher = P. Allen & Sons | location = London

| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101538/1/Dahl_In%20savage_Australia_Complete_Reduced.pdf

}}

• {{Cite book| title = Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien

| last = Eylmann | first = Erhard | year = 1908

| publisher = D.Reimer | location = Berlin

| url = https://archive.org/download/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Ethnological notes on the aboriginal tribes of the Northern Territory

| last = Mathews | first = R. H.

| author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews

| journal = Queensland Geographical Journal

| year = 1901 | volume = 16 | pages = 69–90

| url = https://archive.org/details/queenslandgeogra15roya

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Native tongues in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin

| last = Parkhouse | first = T. A.

| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

| year = 1895 | volume = 19 | pages = 1–18

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54671

}}

• {{Cite book| title = Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

| last = Spencer | first = Baldwin | year = 1914

| author-link = Walter Baldwin Spencer

| publisher = Macmillan Publishers | location = London

| url = https://archive.org/download/cu31924028623076/cu31924028623076.pdf }}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Awarai (NT)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names

| publisher = Australian National University

| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/awarai.htm

| archive-date = 20 March 2020

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/awarai.htm

| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6

}}

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