Bindal language

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Bindal
Bendalgubba, Nyawaygi
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Bindal people
Eraattested 1865
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xbd
Glottolog bind1237   see Lower Burdekin languages
AIATSIS [1] E61

Bindal (Bendalgubba, Nyawaygi) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of North Queensland. [1] The Bindal language region included the area from Cape Cleveland extending south towards Ayr and the mouth of the Burdekin River, encompassing the landscape within the boundaries of the Townsville City Council and Burdekin Shire Council. [2]

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Classification

Bowern [3] suggests that it might have been a Maric language. Breen [1] presumes that one of two Lower Burdekin languages, which he concluded were not Maric, is Bindal.

Vocabulary

Some words from the Bindal language, as spelt and written by Bindal authors include: [2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 E61 Bindal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. 1 2 CC BY icon-80x15.png This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Bindal published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence , accessed on 17 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)


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