Marranunggu
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The Marranunggu are an Aboriginal Australian people and language group,{{sfn|Grim|2006|p=287}} of the Northern Territory.
Language
{{main|Marranj language}}
Marranunggu is classified as one of the dialects of the Marranji group of the Western Daly languages, together with Menhthe and Emmi.{{sfn|Marett|Barwick|Ford|2013|p=77}}
Country
The Marranunggu's traditional lands were south of the Daly River.{{sfn|Stanner|1933|p=159}}{{sfn|Rose|2000|p=61}}
According to Norman Tindale's calculations, the Marinunggo had roughly {{convert|250|mi2|km2}} of tribal territory around the area of the Dilke Range and running in a northeasterly direction towards the swamplands of the Daly River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=231}}
Alternative names
- Marranunga
- Maranunggo
- Marranunngo{{sfn|Sutton|2004|p=169}}
- Maranunga
- Maranungo{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=231}}
Notes
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=Citations=
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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 = Journal of the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
| year = 1907 | volume = 31 | pages = 1–62
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54644
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Treatment after circumcision in the Hermit Hill tribe, Daly River, Northern Territory
| last = Dahl | first = Knut
| author-link = Knut Dahl
| journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
| location = Adelaide
| year = 1895 | volume = 19 | pages = 122–123
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54671
}}
- {{Cite book| title = In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land
| last = Dahl | first = Knut
| author-link = Knut Dahl
| year = 1926
| publisher = P. Allen & Sons | location = London
| pages = 72–98
| url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101538/1/Dahl_In%20savage_Australia_Complete_Reduced.pdf
}}
- {{Cite web| title = German Missionaries in Australia: Daly River (1886-1899)
| last = Ganter | first = Regina
| year = 2015
| publisher = Griffith University
| url = http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/mission/daly-river-1886-1899
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Indigenous Traditions: Religion and Ecology
| last = Grim | first = John A.
| title = The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
| editor-last = Gottlieb | editor-first = Roger S.
| year = 2006
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| pages = 283–311
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xpZoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA287
| isbn = 978-0-199-72769-8
}}
- {{Cite book| title = For the Sake of a Song: Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories
| last1 = Marett | first1 = Allan
| last2 = Barwick | first2 = Linda
| last3 = Ford | first3 = Lysbeth
| year = 2013
| publisher = Sydney University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=f62OWsyL-1sC&pg=PA77
| isbn = 978-1-920-89975-2
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Tropical Hundreds:monoculturalism and colonisation
| last = Rose | first = Deborah Bird
| title = Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand
| editor1-last = Docker | editor1-first = John
| editor2-last = Fischer | editor2-first = Gerhard
| year = 2000
| publisher = University of New South Wales Press
| pages = 59–78
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3pHjwge_d4MC&pg=PA68
| isbn = 978-0-868-40538-4
}}
- {{Cite journal| title = Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary Paper
| last = Stanner | first = W. E. H.
| author-link = W. E. H. Stanner
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 156–175
| jstor = 40327457
| date = December 1933
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00098.x }}
- {{Cite book| title = Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective
| last = Sutton | first = Peter
| author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
| year = 2004
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LOnTBS_jFEIC&pg=PA169
| isbn = 978-1-139-44949-6
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Cave Men Luminoids, and Dragons:Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia
| last = Thurman | first = Joanne
| title = Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
| editor1-last = Musharbash | editor1-first = Yasmine
| editor2-last = Presterudstuen | editor2-first = Geir Henning
| year = 2014
| publisher = Springer
| pages = 25–38
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DBe-BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT28
| isbn = 978-1-137-44865-1
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Marinunggo (NT)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| 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/marinunggo.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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