Marditjali may not be the term used by the tribe itself, but an exonym applied to them by tribes to their west.[2] Since the ethnonym is composed of two words marti ("abrupt/difficult to understand") and tjale (speech) from Westernj languages indicating their language was hard to grasp.
Languageedit
The Marditjali name for their language is unknown, but it was called Wintjabarap, designating the Wintjintanga horde by tribes to their west.
Marditjali tribal areas were characterized by swampy zones encircled by imposing country was characterized by large red gum forests The frontier with the Bungandidj (Buandik) around Eden hope was marked by a brusque change in tree type, as red gums yielded to scrub gums. Their western boundaries with the Meintangk on the Naracoorte Range are likewise ecologically defined by the rising terraces of wooded lime sand dunes.[3]
Social organisationedit
The Marditjali were divided into several camps
Witjintanga
Alternative namesedit
Worangarait ([wora] = plain country, [ngara] = to exist in-name applied by Bunganditj)
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