The Yangman were an
indigenous Australian
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people of the
Northern Territory
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.
Language
The
Yangman language was closely related to
Wardaman and
Dalabon, and survives fragmentarily as passive knowledge among a few
Mangarrayi people, descendants through intermarriage of Yangman who once worked at Elsey Station and around Mataranka. Jimmy Daniels (d.1986) was the last known fluent native speaker, though rather reluctant to think back in his mother-tongue, and left a record of some 500 words in interviews with the linguist Francesca Merlan.
Country
In
Tindale's estimation the Yangman's territory extended over some covering basically the plateau terrain lying between the
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and
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river systems. Its southern reaches extended to
Elsey Creek, south of
Mataranka, especially around Warlock Ponds, as far as
Daly Waters. The Wardaman people lay to their west.
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Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory