The Ngalakgan are an

indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...

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

Ngalakgan The Ngalakgan are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language Ngalakgan is generally classified as a member of the Gunwinyguan family. Country Ngalakgan territory covered an estimated , north of the Roper River as far a ...

is generally classified as a member of the Gunwinyguan family.

Country

Ngalakgan territory covered an estimated , north of the

Roper River The Roper River is a large perennial river located in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory of Australia. Location and features Formed by the confluence of the Waterhouse River and Roper Creek, the Roper River rises east of Mataranka ...

as far as Mainoru, and ran from east of the Wilton River to the upper Maiwok and Flying Fox creeks. The

Jawoyn The Jawoyn, also written Djauan, are an Australian Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Bagala clan are of the Jawoyn people. Language Jawoyn, known as Kumertuo, is a non- Pama–Nyungan language that belongs ...

lay directly west, the Dalabon to the northwest, the

Rembarrnga The Rembarrnga people, also spelt Rembarunga and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as ...

to their immediate north, the

Ngandi The Ngandi were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. The Ngandji are another tribe, and the two are not to be confused. Country The Ngandi's lands, some in extent, encompassed the area around the upper Wilton River, M ...

and Yukul to their east, while the Alawa lay on their southern flank.

Ethnography

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 ...

was the earliest ethnographer to work directly with, and study, the Ngalakgan, in 1922 during his first fieldwork trip.

Alternative names

* ''Ngalagan, Ngalakan. Ngalarkan'' * ''Nalakan, Nalagen'' * ''Nala-nalagen'' * ''Nullakun, Nullikan, Nullikin'' * ''Ngulkpun''

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* * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory