The Marri Ngarr, also spelt Maringar, Murrinnga, Muringa or Maringa are an Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.
Country In Norman Tindale's estimate the Maringar had about midway along the Moyle River and its contiguous swamplands and various tributaries.
Language The language of Maringar Country is Yan-nhaŋu.
Social organisation The Maringar are composed of six clans: the Bindararr, Ngurruwulu, Walamangu, Gamalangga, Malarra and Gurryindi (Gorryindi) peoples.
Their society was described in a monograph by the Norwegian ethnographer Johannes Falkenberg, based on fieldwork done in 1950, a work judged by Rodney Needham to be 'a masterly monograph which must immediately be ranked with the classics of Australian anthropology'.
Alternative names Muringar Murrinnga Muringa, Yaghanin Moil
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