The Giabal, also known as the ''Gomaingguru,'' were an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples o ...
tribe of southern
Queensland
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.
Country
The Giabal ranged over some of territory which lay between
Allora and around
Dalby. Their eastern extension ran close to
Gatton, while their western frontier reached west to
Millmerran
Millmerran , known as Domville between 1 June 1889 and 16 November 1894, is a town and a locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Millmerran had a population of 1,563 people.
Geography
The town is on the ...
. According to
Stephen Wurm
Stephen Adolphe Wurm ( hu, Wurm István Adolf, ; 19 August 1922 – 24 October 2001) was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.
Early life
Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and the Hungarian- ...
and Suzanne Kite, the Giabal were the southernmost branch of the
Baruŋgam.
History of contact
The first historical notice we have of them appear in an account written by
William Ridley, a missionary who undertook a journey among the tribes of southern Queensland in 1855. He stated that the tribe whom he encountered in October of that year at
Yandilla
Yandilla is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Yandilla had a population of 46 people.
Geography
The north-eastern boundary follows the Condamine River. The area was serviced by the Millmerran railway ...
, spoke a language called 'Paiamba'.
Ridley's entry is very brief:
Thence I came up the Weir, a tributary of the Macintyre; at four stations thereon, I met with forty blacks; all speak Pikumbul, and know something of Kamilaroi.From the head of the Weir, I again crossed the Downs by Yandilla
Yandilla is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Yandilla had a population of 46 people.
Geography
The north-eastern boundary follows the Condamine River. The area was serviced by the Millmerran railway ...
,where I found nearly a dozen blacks who speak Paiamba, a dialect containing a few words like those of the Brisbane tribes, but which was for the most part quite strange to me.
Alternative names
* ''Gitabal.'' (scribal error)
* ''Gomaingguru.'' ('Men of the
Condamine)
* ''Paiamba''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland