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Dousset, Laurent, Harold Koch and Patrick McConvell. 2015. AustKin Database on Australian Aboriginal Kinship Systems and Systems of Social Organization: The Kalkatungu language. http://www.austkin.net/language/309, accessed 2026-04-03.

Kalkatungu

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AIATSIS Language code: G13

Alternative Spelling(s): (note that these are names or spellings through which this language may have been called in the litterature, but that they may be erroneous) Galgadungu, Kalkadoon‚Äö, Calcadoon, Galgadung, Galgadunga, Galgadungu, Kalkadoon, Kalkadoona, Kalkadun, Kalkadung, Kalkadunga, Kalkaladoona, Kalkatongo, Kalkatunga, Kalkatungu, Kalkutung, Kulkadoon, Kulkadoona, Kulkodo.

Terminologies

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Social Categories

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Marriage Rules

Source(s):
Roth, W.E. 1897[1984]. Ethnological Studies Among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. Brisbane: Edmund Gregory, Government Printer, Willliam St. Facsimile Edition 1984. The Queensland Aborigines volume 1 (Aboriginal Studies Series No. 2). Editor K. F. MacIntyre. Carlisle: Hesperian Press.

Marriage rules (note that these rules can be combined)
+ Matrilateral
+ 1st CC
+ Distant/Removed (versus actual)