{{Short description|Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{use Australian English|date=August 2021}} The '''Marranunggu''' are an Aboriginal Australian people and language group,{{sfn|Grim|2006|p=287}} of the Northern Territory.
==Language== {{main|Marranj language}} Marranunggu is classified as one of the dialects of the Marranji group of the Western Daly languages, together with Menhthe and Emmi.{{sfn|Marett|Barwick|Ford|2013|p=77}}
==Country== The Marranunggu's traditional lands were south of the Daly River.{{sfn|Stanner|1933|p=159}}{{sfn|Rose|2000|p=61}}
According to Norman Tindale's calculations, the Marinunggo had roughly {{convert|250|mi2|km2}} of tribal territory around the area of the Dilke Range and running in a northeasterly direction towards the swamplands of the Daly River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=231}}
==Alternative names== * ''Marranunga'' * ''Maranunggo'' * ''Marranunngo''{{sfn|Sutton|2004|p=169}} * ''Maranunga'' * ''Maranungo''{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=231}}
==Notes== {{notelist}}
===Citations=== {{Reflist|20em}}
==Sources== {{refbegin|30em}} *{{Cite journal | title = Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia | last = Basedow | first = Herbert | author-link = Herbert Basedow | journal = Journal of the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia | year = 1907 | volume = 31 | pages = 1–62 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54644 }} *{{Cite journal | title = Treatment after circumcision in the Hermit Hill tribe, Daly River, Northern Territory | last = Dahl | first = Knut | author-link = Knut Dahl | journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia | location = Adelaide | year = 1895 | volume = 19 | pages = 122–123 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54671 }}
*{{Cite book| title = In Savage Australia: An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land | last = Dahl | first = Knut | author-link = Knut Dahl | year = 1926 | publisher = P. Allen & Sons | location = London | pages = 72–98 | url = https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101538/1/Dahl_In%20savage_Australia_Complete_Reduced.pdf }} *{{Cite web| title = German Missionaries in Australia: Daly River (1886-1899) | last = Ganter | first = Regina | year = 2015 | publisher = Griffith University | url = http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/mission/daly-river-1886-1899 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Indigenous Traditions: Religion and Ecology | last = Grim | first = John A. | title = The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology | editor-last = Gottlieb | editor-first = Roger S. | year = 2006 | publisher = Oxford University Press | pages = 283–311 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xpZoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA287 | isbn = 978-0-199-72769-8 }} *{{Cite book| title = For the Sake of a Song: Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories | last1 = Marett | first1 = Allan | last2 = Barwick | first2 = Linda | last3 = Ford | first3 = Lysbeth | year = 2013 | publisher = Sydney University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=f62OWsyL-1sC&pg=PA77 | isbn = 978-1-920-89975-2 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Tropical Hundreds:monoculturalism and colonisation | last = Rose | first = Deborah Bird | title = Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand | editor1-last = Docker | editor1-first = John | editor2-last = Fischer | editor2-first = Gerhard | year = 2000 | publisher = University of New South Wales Press | pages = 59–78 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3pHjwge_d4MC&pg=PA68 | isbn = 978-0-868-40538-4 }} *{{Cite journal| title = Ceremonial Economics of the Mulluk Mulluk and Madngella Tribes of the Daly River, North Australia. A Preliminary Paper | last = Stanner | first = W. E. H. | author-link = W. E. H. Stanner | journal = Oceania | volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 156–175 | jstor = 40327457 | date = December 1933 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00098.x }} *{{Cite book| title = Native Title in Australia: An Ethnographic Perspective | last = Sutton | first = Peter | author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist) | year = 2004 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LOnTBS_jFEIC&pg=PA169 | isbn = 978-1-139-44949-6 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Cave Men Luminoids, and Dragons:Monstrous Creatures Mediating Relationships between People and Country in Aboriginal Northern Australia | last = Thurman | first = Joanne | title = Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond | editor1-last = Musharbash | editor1-first = Yasmine | editor2-last = Presterudstuen | editor2-first = Geir Henning | year = 2014 | publisher = Springer | pages = 25–38 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DBe-BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT28 | isbn = 978-1-137-44865-1 }} *{{Cite book| chapter = Marinunggo (NT) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | author-link = Norman Tindale | year = 1974 | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = Australian National University | chapter-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200320015719/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/marinunggo.htm | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 }} {{refend}}
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