TheYangman were anindigenous Australian people of theNorthern Territory.
TheYangman language was closely related toWardaman andDalabon, and survives fragmentarily as passive knowledge among a fewMangarrayi people, descendants through intermarriage of Yangman who once worked at Elsey Station and around Mataranka.[1] Jimmy Daniels (d.1986) was the last known fluent native speaker, though rather reluctant to think back in his mother-tongue, and left a record of some 500 words in interviews with the linguist Francesca Merlan.[1]
InTindale's estimation the Yangman's territory extended over some 5,600 square miles (15,000 km2) covering basically the plateau terrain lying between theRoper andVictoria river systems. Its southern reaches extended toElsey Creek, south ofMataranka, especially around Warlock Ponds,[2] as far asDaly Waters.[3] The Wardaman people lay to their west.[2]