Adnyamathanha
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English
Noun
Adnyamathanha (plural Adnyamathanhas or Adnyamathanha)
- (chiefly in the plural) A people indigenous to South Australia.
- 1993, Peggy Brock, Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
- page 130: All children born of an Adnyamathanha mother are Adnyamathanha irrespective of their father's affiliations. The children (as in many Aboriginal communities) were raised by their mother's Adnyamathanha husband and were considered his ...
page 161: If the missionaries had done nothing but negotiate the Nepabunna land and provide rations during the depression, they would have succeeded in fulfilling the Adnyamathanhas' most pressing requirements.
Proper noun
Adnyamathanha
- The language spoken by these people.
