Bungandidj language

Bunganditj
Buwandik
Region	South-east South Australia South-west Victoria
Ethnicity	Buandig
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	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