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The Mariamo or Marri ammu are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

Name

The ethnonym Mariamo/Marri Ammu signifies 'plains language'.

Language

Mariamo belongs to the Western branch of the Daly River language family.

Country

The Mariamo tribal lands covered some 100 square miles (260 km2) of swampland south of Mount Greenwood. Their status as an in independent tribe has been maintained by both W. E. H. Stanner and Norman Tindale.

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