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    The Yolngu or Yolŋu (IPA: [ˈjuːlŋʊ] or [ˈjuːŋuːl]) are an aggregation of Aboriginal Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern...
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    'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of...
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    specific type of the instrument made and used by the Yolngu peoples of north-east Arnhem Land. Some Yolngu people began using the word mandapul after 2011...
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  • Northern Territory and subsequently settled closer to Yolngu homelands, conflicts with the Yolngu became more frequent. In 1931, an area of 96,000 square...
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  • Yolngu Boy is a 2001 Australian coming-of-age film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, produced by Patricia Edgar, Gordon Glenn, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and...
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    recorded to have happened at Mirki on the north coast of Florida Station. The Yolngu people today remember this massacre where many people including children...
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  •  balander Walker, Alan & Zorc, R. David (1981). "Austronesian Loanwords in Yolngu-Matha of Northeast Arnhem Land" (PDF). Aboriginal History. 5: 124. Merriam-Webster...
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  • Yolŋu (Yolngu) or Penguin Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia....
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  • provide downloadable and printable posters showing each group's calendar. The Yolngu, the Aboriginal Australians of north-east Arnhem Land, identify six seasons...
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    of Arrernte mythology Bamapana, Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord Banaitja, creator deity Barnumbirr, Yolngu creator spirit Barraiya, creator...
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  • (Galiwin'ku), an island off the coast of Northeast Arnhem Land. Gali was a Yolngu Mala leader and Gälpu clan representative, a clan group of the Dhuwa moiety...
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    anthropologists, the extensive influence of the trepang industry on the Yolngu people suggests a longer period of contact. Arnhem Land Aboriginal rock...
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  • loses control of an operation that results in the massacre of a group of Yolngu people in Arnhem Land in 1919. After his superiors insist on burying the...
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    Yothu Yindi (category Yolngu)
    Yothu Yindi (Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced /ˌjɒθuː ˈjɪndi/, natively [ju:t̪u jindi]) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal...
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    oral histories comprising complex narratives have been passed down by Yolngu people through hundreds of generations. The Aboriginal rock art, dated by...
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  • Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal...
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  • A lunar deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it. Lunar deities and Moon worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in...
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  • In Yolngu mythology, Bamapana is a trickster god who causes discord. He is obscene and profane and once committed incest, thus breaking a strict taboo...
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  • Baijini are a mythical people mentioned in the Djanggawul song cycle of the Yolngu people, an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory...
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    Barnumbirr (category Yolngu)
    creator-spirit in the Yolngu culture of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, who is identified as the planet Venus. In Yolngu Dreaming mythology...
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    Women's string-figure depicting "menstrual blood of three women", illustrating the Yolngu people's tribal mythology of menstrual synchrony....
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    state to confer state voting rights on Aboriginal people. In 1963, the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land sent a bark petition to the Australian parliament...
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    Land. Its population comprises predominantly Aboriginal Australians of the Yolngu people, and it is also home to a number of Mission Aviation Fellowship pilots...
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  • Some Tagalog and Cebuano speakers have [ɐ] rather than [a], and Dhangu Yolngu is described as having /ɪ ɐ ʊ/, without any peripheral vowels. [i] is also...
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  • Mulkuṉ Wirrpanda was born in 1947, part of the Dhudi-Djapu clan of the Yolngu people, from the homeland of Dhuruputjpi. Her father was community leader...
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    Mandawuy Yunupingu (category Yolngu people)
    and was principal for the following two years. He helped establish the Yolngu Action Group and introduced the both-ways education system, which recognised...
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    Spear, Wawalag (or Wagalak) sisters, Bat and the Butterfly, and Mimis. Yolngu mythology. Australian Government 'portal' on Aboriginal 'Dreamings' and...
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  • Gawirrin Gumana (category Yolngu people)
    Gawirrin Gumana AO (1935–2016) was an important cultural leader of the Yolngu people and an Aboriginal Australian bark painter known for his use of rarrk...
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    was selected by Baz Luhrmann to sing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" in the Yolngu language in his 2008 film Australia. Nicholas David, a contestant on the...
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    most commonly spoken languages are Djambarrpuyngu and Gupapuyngu (both Yolngu Matha languages). However, there are at least 12 more languages in use in...
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