Ngajanji

The Ngajanji, also written Ngadyan, were an Indigenous Australian people of the rainforest region south of Cairns, in northern Queensland. They form one of 8 groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaram, of the Dyirbal tribes.

Among the Dyirbal languages, Ngadyan shows the greatest differences with the others, particularly in phonology, where it displays vowel lengthening. A vowel followed by l, r or y and a successive consonant would result in the lengthening of the vowel in question: thus gibar (large fig tree) in the other dialects became gibaa, and jalgur (meat) became jaaguu. It also had a mother-in-law language (Jalnay) in which, when one's mother-in-law or her kin were around, one substituted standard words with a special lexicon. Thus guda (dog) would be replaced by nyimbaa, having the same meaning.

Another Dyirbal tribe, the Ngadyandyi, also spoke, besides Dyiru and Gulnay, Ngadyan. By the time Robert M. W. Dixon started studying the language in the mid 1960s, the number of speakers was down to 6. The last informants concerning Ngajan lived in Malanda.

The traditional lands of the Ngajan, covering 200 sq. miles, lay north and west of Innisfail, and extended from the Atherton tableland plateau rainforest east to The upper Russell River, encompassing Yungaburra, Malanda, and the mountain range north of Millaa Millaa. They were bounded on the northern side by the Yidinji and, to the east, between them and the coast were the Yidinji-Wanyurr. The Waribarra Mamu lay to their south.

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