Skin name: Nangila
Clan: Murran

Khaki Marrala is a senior Murran clan member. His father's language was Iwaidja and his mother's language was Marrku. He has a good passive knowledge of Mawng and Kunwinjku.

Khaki was born around 1928 at Waningurarlarl in Malay Bay, situtated on the mainland not far from Croker Island. As a child and adolescent he travelled extensively throughout the Cobourg region and retains today a thorough knowledge of the area and its resources. At the time of the Second World War, when the mission on Croker was established, Khaki was living at Inyjinaj on Croker Island, caring for a group of older Marrku-speaking people. In the early days of the mission, he worked on supply ships servicing the northern coast and later settled more or less permanently at Minjilang where he worked, among other things, as a gardener. He remains at Minjilang today, where he is a key consultant on the Iwaidja and Marrku languages for Iwaidja Inyman.