Yangmani

The Yangman were an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory whose country was centred on the lands around the later town of Larrimah, south-east of Katherine, and reached towards Mataranka and the Elsey country; they had occupied the area for over 40,000 years. They held that the Dreaming tracks of the Storm Bird, the channel-billed cuckoo, shaped the local landscape, and the name Larrimah means meeting place in their tongue.

Their language, together with Wardaman and Dagoman, makes up the Yangmanic group of non-Pama-Nyungan languages, once classified within Gunwinyguan but now treated as a family apart.