Ngomburr

An Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory

The Ngormburr, also known as Murumburr^[1] and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

The Ngormbur are thought to have had approximately 800 sq mi (2,100 km²) of land located between the West and South Alligator rivers, with an inland extension that ran as far as Bamboo Creek.^[2]

The area is now in Kakadu National Park, and the people are part of a group to whom native title was granted in March 2022.^[3]

Language

Their language was or is the Ngormbur language.^[2]

Alternative names

Ngorm-bur
Ngumbu
Gnornbur
Ngorbur
Oormbur
Corm-bur
Koarnbut
Ambukuda
Ambugula
Numbugala
Nambuguja^[4]

Notes

Citations

^ Garde, Murray. "Murumburr". Bininj Kunwok Dictionary. Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b language Ngormbur language Ngomburr at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Gibson, Jano (24 March 2022). "Nearly half of Kakadu National Park to be handed back to Aboriginal traditional owners". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ Tindale 1974, p. 234.

Sources

Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
Spencer, Baldwin (1928). Wanderings in wild Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Ngormbur (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.