Karrangpurru
The Karrangpurru are an
Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory
. They suffered severe population loss very early on in the period of colonial expropriations of their land.
Country
The Karrangpurru lived to the north of the
Bilinara, thus the estimated ancestral territory of the Karrangpurru is approximately 3,750 square miles (9,700 km2).[2][page needed
]
History of contact
Karrangpurru lands were subsumed into the
Yarralin and town of Katherine.[citation needed
]
Language
Nothing is known of their language, Karranga, since its many of its speakers were wiped out without any items from it being recorded.[3]
References
- ^ a b Meakins & Nordlinger 2014, p. 16.
- ^ Tindale 1974.
- ^ a b Meakins & Nordlinger 2014, p. 17.
Sources
- Meakins, Felicity; Nordlinger, Rachel (2014). A Grammar of Bilinarra: An Australian Aboriginal Language of the Northern Territory. ISBN 978-1-614-51274-5.
- ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.