Ngardok
The Ngardok were an
indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Nothing is known of the language, which has been extinct since about WW2.[1]
Country
Norman Tindale calculated their land as extending over 200 square miles (520 km2). They inhabited Field Island in Van Diemen Gulf as well as the scrub and swamplands of the adjacent continental coastal belt between the South Alligator River as far as Farewell Point near the mouth of the East Alligator River.[2]
Alternative names
- Ngardulk
- Ngadok
- Ngadug
- Ngadulg
- Ad-dok
- Gnaruk
- A'ragu
- Bimbirik. (?)[2]
Notes
Citations
- ^ N40 Ngaduk at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 234.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- JSTOR 2844477.
- JSTOR 1798232.
- Spencer, Baldwin (1928). Wanderings in wild Australia (PDF). London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Ngardok (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.