Bungandidj language

Bunganditj
Buwandik
Region South-east South Australia
South-west Victoria
Ethnicity Buandig
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • Southeastern

    • Victorian
      • Kulin–Bunganditj
        • Bunganditj
Dialects
Bungandik
Pinejunga
Mootatunga
Wichintunga
Polinjunga[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xbg
Glottolog bung1264[2]
AIATSIS[3] S13

Bunganditj or Buandig (Buwandik) is a language of Australia, spoken by the Buandig people, Indigenous Australians who lived in the Mount Gambier region in present-day south-eastern South Australia and in south-western Victoria.

According to Christina Smith and her book on the Buandig people, the Buandig called their language Drualat-ngolonung (speech of man), or Booandik-ngolo (speech of the Booandik)[4]

Variants of the name are Bunganditj, Bungandaetch, Bunga(n)daetcha, Bungandity, Bungandit, Buganditch, Bungaditj, Pungantitj, Pungatitj, Booganitch, Buanditj, Buandik, Booandik, Boandiks, Bangandidj, Bungandidjk, Pungandik, Bak-on-date, Barconedeet, Booandik-ngolo, Borandikngolo, Bunganditjngolo, Burhwundeirtch.

References

  1. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxv.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bunganditj". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Bunganditj at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. Christina Smith, The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, and Language, Spiller, 1880


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