Name
The ethnonym is formed from their word for 'no', transcribed by early ethnographers as ''quie/koi'', and the suffix ''bal'', which denotes a tribal grouping.Country
Tribal status
In his account of a journey south of Brisbane in 1855, the Presbyterian missionary William Ridley wroteI came down the Gwydir to the Bundarra, and over that river toTindale intuited that the geographic context a day's riding from Warialda would imply that these people, whom Ridley called Yukumba, must have been Kwiambal. At the same time he did not exclude the possibility that they may have been a horde of theWarialda Warialda is a town in the North West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, in Gwydir Shire. Situated on the banks of Warialda Creek, the town's name means "Place of Wild Honey" in local aboriginal language. At the , Warialda had a populati .... The aborigines I found at Warialda, twelve in number, speakKamilaroi The Gamilaraay, also known as Gomeroi, Kamilaroi, Kamillaroi and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people whose lands extend from New South Wales to southern Queensland. They form one of the four largest Indigenous nations in Aust ...as well as Uolaroi; but they were the last I met who spoke to me in the former language. Aday's journey A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible, ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance. In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance; the dis ...northward from Warialda, I found blacks speaking Yukumba; and on theMacintyre MacIntyre or McIntyre is a Scottish surname, relating to Clan MacIntyre. Its meaning is "Son of the Carpenter or Wright". The corresponding English name is Wright. People surnamed ''MacIntyre'', ''Macintyre'' * Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish phil ..., 70 miles from Warialda, Pikumbul is the prevailing language.
Alternative names
* ''Koi'' * ''Kweembul'' * ''Queenbulla'' * ''Quieumble'' Source:Some words
* ''goone'' (whiteman) * ''kuppenea.'' (mother) * ''maroni.'' (kangaroo) * ''menni.'' (tame dog) * ''parpinga.'' (father) Source:Notes
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Sources
* * * * * * * * {{Authority control Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales