Bindal language

Bindal
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Maric)

    • Bindal
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xbd
Glottolog bind1237  (see Lower Burdekin languages)[1]
AIATSIS[2] E61

Bindal is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Bowern[3] suggests that it might have been a Maric language. Breen[2] presumes that one of two Lower Burdekin languages, which he concluded were not Maric, is Bindal. (See Lower Burdekin languages for more information.)

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). ""Bindalic"". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. 1 2 Bindal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

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