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 languages (redirect from Yolngu language)
'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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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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Gove Peninsula (section Yolngu seasons)
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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Indigenous Australian seasons (redirect from Yolngu seasons)
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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List of English words of Malay origin (redirect from Balanda (Yolngu term))
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 Sign Language (redirect from Yolngu Sign Language)
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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of Arrernte mythology Bamapana, Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord Banaitja, creator deity Barnumbirr, Yolngu creator spirit Barraiya, creator...
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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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Makassan contact with Australia (category Yolngu)
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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Baykali Ganambarr (category Yolngu people)
Baykali Ganambarr (born 30 August 1994) is an Yolngu actor and dancer from Elcho Island (Galiwin'ku). He received the 2018 Marcello Mastroianni Award for...
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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 /jɒθuː ˈjɪndi/) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal members, formed...
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Sean Mununggurr is an Australian actor. He has appeared in the films Yolngu Boy, Lucky Miles and High Ground. For his role in High Ground he was nominated...
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Baijini (section The Baijini in Yolngu legend)
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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Australian Aboriginal kinship (section Yolngu)
Aboriginal Australian kinship comprises the systems of Aboriginal customary law governing social interaction relating to kinship in traditional Aboriginal...
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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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charts. The song contains lyrics in Gumatj, one of the Yolngu Matha dialects and a language of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia. The song...
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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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List of lunar deities (section Yolngu mythology)
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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is common among both missionaries and modern Christian Aboriginals. The Yolngu had extensive contact with the Makassans and adopted religious practises...
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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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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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illness caused by "bad spirits" and bone pointing. The complete system of Yolngu customary law is the "Madayin", which embodies the rights and responsibilities...
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mythology At-Tariq, a chapter of the Quran Barnumbirr, a creator-spirit in the Yolngu culture of Australia Jesus, self-described as "the bright Morning Star"...
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In the Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Yolngu, Wuluwaid (see also Wuluwait) is a rain god. He is a god from northern Arnhem Land (northern Australia)...
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Baker Boy (category Yolngu people)
Baker OAM (born 10 October 1996), known professionally as Baker Boy, is a Yolngu rapper, dancer, artist, and actor. Baker Boy is known for performing original...
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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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Caledon Bay crisis (category Yolngu)
Five Japanese trepang fishers were killed by Aboriginal Australians of the Yolngu people. A police officer investigating the deaths, Albert McColl, was subsequently...
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