Marri Amu

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

Name

The ethnonym Mariamo/Marri Ammu signifies 'plains language'.^[1]

Language

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

Country

The Mariamo tribal lands covered some 100 square miles (260 km²) 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.^[2]

Notes

Citations

1. Green 1989, p. 7.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 230.

Sources

• Green, Ian (September 1989). Marrithiyel, a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory (PDF). ANU PhD.
• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Mariamo (NT)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020.