The Jingili or Jingulu are an
indigenous Australian
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people of the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
.
Language
Jingulu is classified as belonging to the
Mirndi family of non
Pama–Nyungan languages
The Pama–Nyungan languages () are the most widespread language family, family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia. The name "Pama–Nyungan" is a merism: it is derived from the two e ...
. An early word-list was compiled by
F. A. Gillen. Following in the wake of pioneering work by Neil Chadwick in the 1970s, Robert Pensalfini wrote out a grammar of Jingulu on the basis of fieldwork with its last known fluent speakers.
Country
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians ...
estimated the range of Jingili lands at approximately . The southern frontier was around
the Renner Springs area about Mount Grayling, extending northwards to
Newcastle Waters and also took in the area of the Ashburton Range. To the east they encompassed Cattle Creek south of
Wave Hill
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and
Ucharonidge. Their western extension ran as far as the 25 miles from
Lake Woods.
Social organization
R. H. Mathews constructed an early scheme to set forth the marriage divisions of the Jingili.
Some eight years later he reconfigured the data in the following terms:
History of contact
According to oral tradition, the Jingili originally migrated from the
Great Western Desert.
Alternative names
* ''Chingalee, Chingalli''
* ''Djingili, Djingali, Djinggili''
* ''Leechunguloo''
* ''T(h)ingalie''
* ''Tjingale, Tchingalee''
* ''Tjingilli, Tjingali, Tjingalli''
* ''Tjingilu''
Source:
Some words
* ''mowija'' (pieces of crystallized quartz used, according to Ravenscroft, to kill an enemy by creeping up to him when the latter slept, and placing the stones on his chest)
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory