Skin name: Ngalwangardi
Clan: Kamurlkbarn

Ngalwangardi's father's language was Awurr, a language closely related to Gaagudju, but, growing up at Jamarldinki (Cape Don), Iwaidja became her first language at an early age. Like her 'sister' of the Karturra, Ngalwangardi was a second-generation language consultant, as her mother consulted on Iwaidja for Heather Hinch in the 1960s and for Noreen Pym and Bonnie Larrimore of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in the 1970s.

Ngalwangardi was born in the late 1930s at a place called Dilkbany in Mangulhan country, which lies northwest of Oenpelli. She was the second child of Elsie Indibu of the Amurdak-speaking Alarrju clan and Nelson Wagbara of the Awurr-speaking Kamurlkbarn clan. Ngalwangardi spent her early childhood on her father's clan country speaking Awurr and Amurdak. The family moved for a short period to Darwin and from there to Jamarldinki, where Ngalwangardi and her siblings grew up learning Iwaidja. In the early 1950s they moved to Minjilang on Croker Island to help set up the infrastructure of the community. Ngalwangardi was a founding member of Iwaidja Inyman language team and an invaluable source of knowledge on cultural areas such as local history, social organisation, genealogy, gathering and hunting, and women's customs. Her passing in 2012 was an enormous loss.