Biri language

Biri
Eastern Maric
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Maric Biri
Dialects	Biri Gangulu Wirri (Widi, Yuwibara) Yilba Baradha Yambina Yetimarala Garanjbal Yangga[1] Mandalgu Giya (Bumbarra)?
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: bzr – Biri gnl – Gangulu xgi – Garingbal
Glottolog	east2716[2]
AIATSIS[3]	E56 Biri, E58 Giya, E65* Mandalgu

Biri (Biria, Birigaba) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. A grammar of Biri proper was written before the language became extinct.

Giya may have been a dialect.^[3] Barna, spoken by the Aminungo in the midst of identified Biri dialects, may have been as well.

References

1. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Maric". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Biri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)

External links

• Bibliography of Barada language and people resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Bibliography of Biri people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Bibliography of Gangulu people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies