Ngalakgan

Ngalakgan is generally classified as a member of the Gunwinyguan family.{{sfn|Baker|2008|p=3}}

File:Roper River tribes, Northern Territory.pngNgalakgan territory covered an estimated {{convert|3,000|mi2|km2}}, north of the Roper River as far as Mainoru, and ran from east of the Wilton River to the upper Maiwok and Flying Fox creeks.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=233}} The Jawoyn lay directly west, the Dalabon to the northwest, the Rembarrnga to their immediate north, the Ngandi and Yukul to their east, while the Alawa lay on their southern flank.{{sfn|Ponsonnet|2014|p=29}}

Norman Tindale was the earliest ethnographer to work directly with, and study, the Ngalakgan, in 1922 during his first fieldwork trip.{{sfn|Tindale|1925|pp=61–102}}{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=233}}

• Ngalagan, Ngalakan. Ngalarkan
• Nalakan, Nalagen
• Nala-nalagen
• Nullakun, Nullikan, Nullikin
• Ngulkpun{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=233}}

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• {{Cite book| title = Word Structure in Ngalakgan

| last = Baker | first = Brett

| year = 2008

| publisher = CSLI Publications

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-80iAQAAMAAJ

| isbn = 978-1-575-86562-1

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• {{Cite book| title = The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia)

| last = Ponsonnet | first = Maïa

| year = 2014

| publisher = John Benjamins Publishing Company

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dqtgBQAAQBAJ

| isbn = 978-9-027-26920-1

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• {{Cite journal | title = Natives of Groote Eylandt and the west coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Part I

| last = Tindale | first = Norman

| journal = Records of the South Australian Museum

| year = 1925 | volume = 3 | pages = 61–102

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41025182

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• {{Cite book| chapter = Ngalakan (NT)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

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

| year = 1974

| publisher = Australian National University

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

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

}}

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