Biri language

Biri
Eastern Maric
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
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. 1 2 Biri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)

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