Marri Amu Explained

The Mariamo or Marri ammu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Name

The ethnonym Mariamo/Marri Ammu signifies 'plains language'.

Language

Mariamo belongs to the Western branch of the Daly River language family.

Country

The Mariamo tribal lands covered some 100mi2 of swampland south of Mount Greenwood. Their status as an in independent tribe has been maintained by both W. E. H. Stanner and Norman Tindale.

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Citations

Sources

• Book: Green, Ian . Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory . . September 1989 .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Mariamo (NT) . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . 1974 . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/mariamo.htm . 20 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200320020206/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/mariamo.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .