Dagoman
The Dagoman are a group of Indigenous Australians living in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Language
The Dagoman language was one of the non-Pama–Nyungan languages, closely related to its congeners, Wardaman and Yangman.[1] All three may be considered to be dialects of the one language isolate. The language is extinct, the last known speaker being Mrs Martha Hart of Pine Creek, who died in 1982.[2] There is a considerable overlap of vocabulary and typological features with Wakiman[3]
Country
Dagoman country lay to the north of that of the Wardaman people,[4] while its borders with those of the Jawoyn were at Kumbidgee by the water-hole of the rock bat (Wallan, in Jawoyn legend), along the old north-south road running from Maranboy to Katherine.[5]
Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ Dagoman 2016.
- ↑ Merlan 1994, p. 2.
- ↑ Merlan 1994, p. 3.
- ↑ David & Wilson 2002, p. 46.
- ↑ Merlan 1998, p. 131.
References
- David, Bruno; Wilson, Meredith (2002). "Spaces of Resistance: Graffiti and Indigenous Place Markings in the Early European Contact Period of Northern Australia". In David, Bruno; Wilson, Meredith. Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-0-824-82472-3.
- "Dagoman". ethnologue. 2016.
- Merlan, Francesca (1994). A Grammar of Wardaman: A Language of the Northern Territory of Australia. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-110-12942-7.
- Merlan, Francesca (1998). Caging the Rainbow: Places, Politics, and Aborigines in a North Australian Town. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-824-82045-9.
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