Mati Ke

{{main|Marringarr language}}{{Infobox language

| name = Mati Ke

| familycolor = australian

| iso3 = zmg

| glotto = mart1254

| altname = Magati Ke

| fam1 = Western Daly

| fam2 = Marringarr

| aiatsis = N163

| speakers = 2

| date = 2009

| speakers2 = L2/L3: 50 (2003)

| region = Wadeye, Northern Territory

| states = Australia

| ethnicity = Mati Ke

}}

Mati Ke, also known as Magati-Ge, Magadige, Marti Ke, Magati Gair, is classified as one of the Western Daly languages, and bearing close affinities to Marringarr and Marrithiyel.{{sfn|Grimes|2003|p=416}} In 1983 around 30 fluent speakers of the language survived,{{sfn|Abley|2005|p=11}} and by the early 2000s, some 50 people were thought to still speak some of it as a second or third language.{{sfn|Grimes|2003|pp=415–416}}

By the early 2000s the last completely fluent speakers were reckoned to be three people, Johnny Chula, Patrick Nudjulu and his sister Agatha Perdjert, both of whom who moved back to a government-built outstation at Kuy on the Shores facing the Timor Sea.{{sfn|Abley|2005|pp=3,11}} Though living in close proximity to one another, they never spoke it together since in their social system communication between brother and sister after puberty was forbidden.{{sfn|Michaels|2007|p=106}}

The clan and totem system was described by the Norwegian ethnologist Johannes Falkenberg in 1962, based on fieldwork conducted in 1950.{{sfn|Falkenberg|1962}}{{sfn|Needham|1962|pp=1316–1318}}

The Mati Ke were one of several tribes living south of Wadeye between the Moyle and Fitzmaurice rivers. Many moved to Wadeye when a Catholic mission was set up there in the 1930s. Most descendants of the tribe dropped using their Mati Ke speech and adopted the majority language in the area, Murrinh-Patha, which is spoken by about 2500 people and serves as a lingua franca for several other ethnic groups.

• Maritige
• Muringata
• Muringa (Murinbata exonym)
• Muringe
• Berinken, Berinkin, Berringin
• Brinken, Brinkan{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=230}}

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• {{Cite book| title = Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

| last = Abley | first = Mark

| author-link = Mark Abley

| year = 2005

| publisher = Houghton-Mifflin

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0SW69lrac8QC&pg=PA1

| isbn = 978-0-618-56583-2

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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

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• {{Cite journal | title = Classification of languages in North and North-West Australia

| last = Capell | first = Arthur

| author-link = Arthur Capell

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 241–272

| date = March 1940

| jstor = 40327769

| doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00292.x

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• {{Cite journal | title = Classification of languages in North and North-West Australia (continued)

| last = Capell | first = Arthur

| author-link = Arthur Capell

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 404–443

| date = June 1945

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• {{Cite journal | title = Archaeological Problems of Northern Australia

| last = Davidson | first = D. S.

| author-link = Daniel Sutherland Davidson

| journal = The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

| volume = 65 | pages = 145–183

| date = January–June 1935

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• {{Cite book| title = Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District

| last = Falkenberg | first = Johannes

| year = 1962

| publisher = Allen & Unwin

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• {{Cite book| chapter = Daly Languages

| last = Grimes | first = Barbara Dix

| year = 2003

| title = International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: AAVE-Esperanto

| edition = 2nd

| editor-last = Frawley | editor-first = William

| volume = 1 | pages = 415–416

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sl_dDVctycgC&pg=PA415

| isbn = 978-0-195-13977-8

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• {{Cite book| title = The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

| last = Michaels | first = Walter Benn

| year = 2007

| publisher = Macmillan

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mLzbBK1ftOEC&pg=PT106

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• {{Cite journal | title = Review: Kin and Totem: Group Relations of Australian Aborigines in the Port Keats District by Johannes Falkenberg

| last = Needham | first = Rodney

| author-link = Rodney Needham

| journal = American Anthropologist

| volume = 64 | issue = 6 | pages = 1316–1318

| date = December 1962

| jstor = 667861

| doi=10.1525/aa.1962.64.6.02a00200

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• {{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 = William Edward Hanley Stanner

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 156–175

| date = December 1933

| jstor = 40327457

| doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00098.x

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• {{Cite book| title = The Language and Culture of the Murrinh-Patha

| last = Street | first = Chester S

| year = 1987

| publisher = Summer Institute of Linguistics

| isbn = 978-0-868-92319-2

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• {{Cite book| chapter = Magatige (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/magatige.htm

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

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