Amurdak
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Amarak
)The Amurdak, people, also written Amarak and Ngamarak,[1] [2] are an indigenous Australian people of the Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory.
Language
The language of the Amarak, Amurdak, is now virtually extinct, the last known speaker being Charlie Mungulda.[3] It was also known as Wardadjbak, and belongs to the Iwaidja language family. It had two dialects, Urrik and Didjurra.[4]
Country
The Amurdak's traditional lands extended over some 900 square miles (2,300 km2) around the eastern coast of
East Alligator River.[5]
Mythology
According to the widespread creation story of the Cobourg Peninsula
edible bulb called murarowa.[6]
Alternative names
- Amarag, Amuruk, Amurag, Amurrak
- Ngamurak, Ngamurag, Nga:mu:rak
- Umoriu
- Monobar (?)[5]
- A'moordiyu
- Amardak
- Amurdag
- Amurtak
- Amuruk
- Mamurug
- Namurug
- Umoreo
- Umorrdak
- Wardadjbak
- Woraidbug
- Wureidbug[2]
Notes
Citations
- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 141.
- ^ a b Amurdak 2018.
- ^ Schmid 2007.
- ^ Dixon 2002, p. xlii.
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 220.
- ^ Spencer 1914, p. 277.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.
- Schmid, Randolph E. (18 September 2007). "Researchers Say Many Languages Are Dying". The Washington Post. Associated Press.
- Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2018). "Amurdak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (21st ed.). Ethnologue.
- Spencer, Baldwin (1914). Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.