The Jingili or Jingulu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Language Jingulu is classified as belonging to the Mirndi family of non Pama–Nyungan languages. An early word-list was compiled by F. A. Gillen. Following in the wake of pioneering work by Neil Chadwick in the 1970s, Robert Pensalfini wrote out a grammar of Jingulu on the basis of fieldwork with its last known fluent speakers.
Country Norman Tindale estimated the range of Jingili lands at approximately . The southern frontier was around the Renner Springs area about Mount Grayling, extending northwards to Newcastle Waters and also took in the area of the Ashburton Range. To the east they encompassed Cattle Creek south of Wave Hill and Ucharonidge. Their western extension ran as far as the 25 miles from Lake Woods.
Social organization R. H. Mathews constructed an early scheme to set forth the marriage divisions of the Jingili. + Divisions of the Jingili tribePhratrySection of ParentsSection of Offspring Husband Wife Son Daughter A JimmitchaChunainjahChemarainjahTampachina NungalleeinjaNalainjahNaraleeinjahNungareeinjah TaraleeinjahTungareeinjahChulainjahChungaleeinjah NaraleeinjahNungareeinjahNalainjahNungalleeinja B ChungaleeinjahChulainjahTungareeinjahTaraleeinjah NameeinjahNanainjahNabajinahNemarainjah TampachinaChemarainjahChunainjahJimmitcha NabajinahNemarainjahNanainjahNameeinjah
Some eight years later he reconfigured the data in the following terms:
+ Divisions of the Jingili tribePhratrySection of Parents Section of Offspring Wife Husband Offspring Cycle A ChungaleeChulaTaraleeTungaree ChimitchaChunaChemaraChampina TaraleeTanagreeChulaChingaree Cycle B ChimichaChunaChampinaChimara ChungaleeChulaTangareeTaralee ChampinaChemaraChunaChimitcha
History of contact According to oral tradition, the Jingili originally migrated from the Great Western Desert.
Alternative names Chingalee, Chingalli Djingili, Djingali, Djinggili Leechunguloo T(h)ingalie Tjingale, Tchingalee Tjingilli, Tjingali, Tjingalli Tjingilu
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Some words mowija (pieces of crystallized quartz used, according to Ravenscroft, to kill an enemy by creeping up to him when the latter slept, and placing the stones on his chest)
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