Kalibamu

{{main|Kukatj language}}

Besides the oral Kalibamu language (also known as Kukatj, although it may be a separate dialect), the Kalibamu had a sign language: puffed cheeks meant lack of water; a fist on one's forehead indicated the presence of a wallaroo; stroking one's face with splayed fingers a kangaroo, and holding the arm up and bending one's hand, that an emu was nearby.{{sfn|Middleton|Noble|1886|p=91|ps={{red| ?}}}}

The Kalibamu had an estimated (Norman Tindale) territorial range of some {{convert|1,100|mi2|km2}}, They inhabited the coastal area running from the Leichhardt River to Morning Inlet. Their inland extension went as far as Wernadinga, Floraville, and Punchbowl.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=173}}

The last survivor of the remnant of the Kalibamu died by 1963.{{cn|date=October 2020}} They made damper from grass seeds called jaboola. The eating of emu meat was restricted to the aged.{{sfn|Middleton|Noble|1886|pp=90–91|ps={{red| ?}}}}

• Kotanda (also occasionally used of the Kareldi){{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=173}}

• ngoora (tame dog)
• goombeno (wild dog)
• yabboo (father)
• younga (mother)
• mikkaloo (white man){{sfn|Middleton|Noble|1886|p=92|ps={{red| ?}}}}

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• {{Cite book| chapter = Kalibamu (QLD)

| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett

| author-link = Norman Tindale

| year = 1974

| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names

| publisher = Australian National University Press

| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kalibamu.htm

}}

• {{Cite book| chapter = Nogoa

| last1 = Middleton

| first1 = T.

| last2 = Noble

| first2 = E. Irving

| year = 1886

| title = The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent

| editor-last = Curr | editor-first = Edward Micklethwaite | editor-link = Edward Micklethwaite Curr

| volume = 3 | pages = 90–95

| publisher = J. Ferres | location = Melbourne

| chapter-url = https://archive.org/download/australianracei02currgoog/australianracei02currgoog.pdf

|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924026093835/cu31924026093835_djvu.txt

}}

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