{{Short description|Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory}} {{About|indigenous Australian people|an ethnic group in Indonesia|Manggarai}} {{use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}} The '''Mangarayi''', also written Mangarai, were an [[Indigenous Australian]] people of the [[Northern Territory]].
==Language== [[Mangarayi language|Mangarayi]] is thought to be one of the [[Gunwingguan languages]].{{sfn|Grimes|2003|p=119}} Francesca Merlan published a grammar of the language in 1982, one that is notable also for the difficulty it presents for determining whether it is a [[Grammatical tense|tensed or non-tensed language]].{{sfn|Wetzer|1996|p=297}} The linguist Margaret Sharpe was deterred from pursuing more intensive studies of Mangarayi by a station owner who grew annoyed with the presence of metropolitan anthropologists and linguists coming to study the indigenous people on his cattle run.{{sfn|Sharpe|2008|p=61, n.2}}
==Country== The Mangarayi held sway over an estimated {{convert|4,500|mi2|km2}} of land on the middle and upper courses of [[Roper River]] as far as Mount Lindsay. Their traditional grounds took in east of [[Mataranka, Northern Territory|Mataranka]] and [[Maranboy]], Mount Emily, [[Elsey Station|Elsey]], and [[Barunga, Northern Territory|Beswick]]. The north-eastern frontier lay around Mount Elsie.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=227}}
==History== Some Mangarayi were thought to have been implicated in the murder of a telegraph worker from [[Daly Waters, Northern Territory|Daly Waters]] that took place on 30 June 1875. A large party of police and vigilantes set out to exact a thorough revenge by slaughtering large numbers of the Mangarayi and people of other tribes along the length of the Roper River in August of that year.{{sfn|Roberts|2009}}
==Alternative names== * ''Mangarei, Manggarai'' * ''Mungarai'' * ''Mungerry'' * ''Walooka'' (?)
Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=227}}
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