The Mangarayi , also written Mangarai, were an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory .
4-513: Mangarayi is thought to be one of the Gunwingguan languages . Francesca Merlan published a grammar of the language in 1982, one that is notable also for the difficulty it presents for determining whether it is a tensed or non-tensed language . The linguist Margaret Sharpe was deterred from pursuing more intensive studies of Mangarayi by a station owner who grew annoyed with the presence of metropolitan anthropologists and linguists coming to study
8-683: Is an Australian language spoken in the Northern Territory . Its classification is uncertain. Margaret Sharpe originally sought to record the language but turned to the study of Alawa after the station owner where her informants lived denied her access, having tired of the presence of researchers on the property. The 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics official census indicates that there are no speakers of Mangarrayi remaining, however elders Sheila Conway and Jessie Roberts are both speakers of Mangarrayi. Conway continues to make an important contribution to language revitalization projects in
12-417: The indigenous people on his cattle run. The Mangarayi held sway over an estimated 4,500 square miles (12,000 km) of land on the middle and upper courses of Roper River as far as Mount Lindsay. Their traditional grounds took in east of Mataranka and Maranboy , Mount Emily, Elsey , and Beswick . The north-eastern frontier lay around Mount Elsie. Some Mangarayi were thought to have been implicated in
16-584: The murder of a telegraph worker from Daly Waters that took place on 30 June 1875. A large party of police and vigilantes set out to exact a thorough revenge by slaughtering large numbers of the Mangarayi and people of other tribes along the length of the Roper River in August of that year. Source: Tindale 1974 , p. 227 Mangarayi language Mangarrayi (Manggarrai, Mungerry, Ngarrabadji)
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