Bindal language

Bindal is an Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Bowern[2] suggests that it might have been a Maric language. Breen[1] presumes that one of two Lower Burdekin languages, which he concluded were not Maric, is Bindal. (See Lower Burdekin languages for more information.)

Bindal
Native toAustralia
RegionQueensland
EthnicityBindal people
Extinct(date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Maric)
    • Bindal
Language codes
ISO 639-3xbd
Glottologbind1237  see Lower Burdekin languages
AIATSIS[1]E61

References

  1. E61 Bindal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. 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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