Unjadi

{{Infobox language

| name = Unjadi

| altname = Unyadi

| familycolor = australian

| iso3 = none

| glotto = none

| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan

| fam2 = Paman

| fam3 = North Cape York

| fam4 = Northern

| region = Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

| states = Australia

| ethnicity = Unjadi

| extinct = ?

| aiatsis = Y13

}}

According to Lauriston Sharp, the Unjadi language differed only marginally from that spoken by the neighbouring Okara.{{sfn|Sharp|1939|p=259, n.6}}

The Unjadi's traditional lands, embracing some {{convert|500|mi2|km2}} of territory, lay around the upper Dulhunty tributary of the Ducie river as far north as the headwaters of the Jardine River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=186}}

The American anthropologist R. Lauriston Sharp described the Unjadi as belonging to what he called the Jathaikana type with regard to their totemic organization.{{sfn|Sharp|1939|p=258}} By this he meant that the Unjadi lacked a moiety and section division. Their totemic clans were patrilineal whose totems were not normally tabu, tabus being applied rigorously only to personal totems from the mother's clan, which were assigned to male and female individuals with the onset of puberty.{{sfn|Sharp|1939|p=259}}

• Unyadi
• Onyengadi
• Oyungo, Oyonggo (a Tjongkandji exonym){{sfn|Thomson|1934|p=219}}
• Empikeno (a Jathaikana exonym)
• Umtadee (?)
• Wundjur (?){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=186}}

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• {{Cite journal | title = Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland

| last = McConnel | first = Ursula H.

| author-link = Ursula McConnel

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 54–72

| date = September 1939

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x | jstor = 40327720

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)

| last = McConnel | first = Ursula H.

| author-link = Ursula McConnel

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 434–455

| date = June 1940

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x | jstor = 40327867

}}

• {{Cite book| title = Report on the North Queensland aborigines and the native police

| last = Parry-Okeden | first = William

| author-link = William Parry-Okeden

| year = 1897

| publisher = Edmond Gregory, government printer

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia

| last = Sharp | first = R. Lauriston

| author-link = Lauriston Sharp

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 254–275

| date = March 1939

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x | jstor = 40327744

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Hero cult, initiation and totemism on Cape York Peninsula

| last = Thomson | first = Donald Fergusson

| author-link = Donald Thomson

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

| volume = 63 | pages = 453–537

| date = July–December 1933

| doi = 10.2307/2843801 | jstor = 2843801

}}

• {{Cite journal | title = Notes on a Hero Cult from the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland

| last = Thomson | first = Donald Fergusson

| author-link = Donald Thomson

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

| volume = 64 | pages = 217–235

| date = July–December 1934

| doi = 10.2307/2843808 | jstor = 2843808

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Unjadi (QLD)

| 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/unjadi.htm

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

}}

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{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}

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Category:Aboriginal peoples of Queensland