The Yukul, also written Jukul, were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Little to no material has been salvaged of the Yukul language, since it was never studied; no examples of their speech that would allow grammatical analysis exist, and only a few words were taken down. Though believed to be similar to Alawa and Marra, there is no evidence for such an inference. Most of the younger generation now speak a variety of kriol.
Yukul lands covered an estimated . on the southern bank of the Roper River at the mouth of the Hogson River and around Leichhardt Bar (Urapunga). Their northern boundary lay around Mount Favenc.
A brief description of their class divisions was given by R. H. Mathews in 1900.
A massive land seizure in the densely populated Gulf Country started in 1881, with 14 colonial landholders taking up stations that averaged some each. Within the following 3 decades an estimated 600 indigenous people were shot down to make way for the cattle and sheep pastured on these runs. A Church Mission was established at Ngukurr in 1908 to take in the remnants of decimated tribes.
Many Yukul now live at Ngukurr.
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