Jamindjung

The Jamindjung, also spelt Djamindjung, are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Language

Jaminjung belongs to the Yirram branch of the non Pama-Nyungan tongues, and is related closely to the language spoken by the Ngaliwurru, and, some distantly, to Nungali.^[1]

Country

W. E. H. Stanner, writing in 1936, placed the Djamindjung between the north bank of the Victoria River to the south bank of the Fitzmaurice River, with an inland extension from the Timor Sea he reckoned to be about 100 miles.^[2] Norman Tindale worked out more specific details, estimating their tribal territory's extent as covering about 2,700 square miles (7,000 km²), from the upper and middle Fitzmaurice through to the Vambarra mountain range and Umyxera Creek, while their southern limits lay at Timber Creek on the Victoria River. Their domain included Bradshaw and the Angalarri River.^[3]

Alternative names

• Djamunjun
• Djamundon
• Djamadjong
• Jaminjang, Jaminjung
• Kaminjung
• Tjamindjung, Tjaminjun
• Murinyuwen, Murinyuwan^[3]