Djerimanga

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The Djerimanga also known as the Wulna{{sfn|SLoNSW}}{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}} are an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

Wulna country consisted of some {{convert|1,200|mi2|km2}} on the coastal plain where the Adelaide River debouches into the Timor Sea, north to the tip of Cape Hotham, west to Gunn Point and the Coolalinga Region, south to Manton Dam. Including Accacia Aboriginal Community and eastwards as far as the Mary River floodplains. Humpty Doo Station, Koolpinyah Station and Djukbinj National Park are also situated within these traditional boundaries. Historically, the Wulna had a southern inland extension of their land as far as the Margaret River and the Ringwood Range, but lost it to the eastern Djowei.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=224}}

Alternative names

  • Djeramanga, Jermangel
  • Waak
  • Wulna, Woolna (toponym), Woolnah, Woolner, Wulnar, Wolna

Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=224}}

Language

The Djerimanga spoke Wulna (Wuna) an Indigenous language that is now extinct.{{sfn|Ethnologue}}

Notes

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See also

Sources

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  • {{Cite journal| title = Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia

| last =Basedow| first =Herbert

| author-link =Herbert Basedow

| journal =Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

| volume =31

| pages =1-62

| year =1907

| url =https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-835735524/view?partId=nla.obj-835749814#page/n2/mode/1up

}}

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

| last =Eylmann| first =Erhard

| publisher =Dietrich Reimer

| location =Berlin

| year =1908

| url =https://ia801305.us.archive.org/16/items/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog/dieeingeborenen00eylmgoog.pdf

}}

  • {{Cite thesis| type = Doctoral thesis| title = A description of the Emmi language of the Northern Territory of Australia

| last = Ford | first = Lysbeth Julie | year = 1998

| publisher = Australian National University

| url = https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/10796/7/Ford_Thesis_1998.pdf

}}

  • {{Cite book| chapter = Djerimanga (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/djerimanga.htm

| archive-date = 20 March 2020

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

}}

  • {{Cite web| title = Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory' by John W. O. Bennett, annotated by Paul Foelsche

| website = Indigenous Languages

| publisher = State Library of New South Wales

| url = https://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/vocabulary-woolner-district-dialect-adelaide-river-northern-territory-john-w-o-6

| access-date = 12 September 2022

| ref = {{harvid|SLoNSW}}

}}

  • {{Cite web| title = Wulna

| website = Ethnologue

| url = https://www.ethnologue.com/language/wux

| access-date = 12 September 2022

| ref = {{harvid|Ethnologue}}

}}

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