Djerimanga

"Wuna" redirects here. For other uses, see Wuna (disambiguation).

The Djerimanga also known as the Wulna are an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Country

Wulna country consisted of some 1,200 square miles (3,100 km²) on the coastal plain where the Adelaide River debouches into the Timor Sea, north to the tip of Cape Hotham, west to Gunn Point and the Coolalinga Region, south to Manton Dam. Including Accacia Aboriginal Community and eastwards as far as the Mary River floodplains. Humpty Doo Station, Koolpinyah Station and Djukbinj National Park are also situated within these traditional boundaries. Historically, the Wulna had a southern inland extension of their land as far as the Margaret River and the Ringwood Range, but lost it to the eastern Djowei.

Alternative names

• Djeramanga, Jermangel
• Waak
• Wulna, Woolna (toponym), Woolnah, Woolner, Wulnar, Wolna

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 224

Language

The Djerimanga spoke Wulna (Wuna) an Indigenous language that is now extinct.

See also

• Wulna language

Sources

• Basedow, Herbert (1907). "Anthropological notes on the Western Coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 31: 1–62.
• Eylmann, Erhard (1908). Die Eingeborenen der Kolonie Südaustralien (PDF). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
• Ford, Lysbeth Julie (1998). A description of the Emmi language of the Northern Territory of Australia (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Australian National University.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Djerimanga (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020.
• "Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory' by John W. O. Bennett, annotated by Paul Foelsche". Indigenous Languages. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
• "Wulna". Ethnologue. Retrieved 12 September 2022.