The anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner thought that other attested tribal names, Maritjamiri and Mangikurungu, properly belonged to the Marinmanindji.[1]Norman Tindale noted a similarity between their name and that of the Nanggikorongo also identified in this area, but did not draw any conclusion, since adequate material to clarify the overlap was not available.[2]
Marimanindji was a dialect within the Marrithiyel language cluster and is now critically endangered or dormant,[3][4] with only a few speakers as of 2007.[5]
Country
Marimanindji ranged to the south of Hermit Hill, in the central Daly River area.[2] Later work indicated that they lived south of both the Daly and Darwin rivers, to the west, and near the headwaters of the Muldiva river.[3] The Marranunggu and Marrithiyal lay to their west, the Ngan'gimerri to their south and the Kamu and Moil to the east.[6]
People
They are generally grouped as one of the Marrithiyal. Stanner's fieldwork in 1933 suggested to him that their kinship system was of the Kariera type.[7]