Badimaya language

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Badimaya
Spoken in: Australia 
Region: Murchison area of Western Australia
Total speakers: Possibly 4
Language family: Australian
 Pama-Nyungan
  South-West
   Kartu
    Badimaya
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: aus
ISO/FDIS 639-3: bia

Badimaya is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is a member of the Kartu subgroup of the Southwest branch of the Pama-Nyungan family.

Badimaya country lies in the area between Mt Magnet and Dalwallinu. The Yamaji Language Centre has been carrying out work on the Badimaya language since 1993 and has produced an illustrated wordlist as well as grammatical materials and a dictionary (the latter two unpublished). A grammar of Badimaya was written by Leone Dunn in the 1980s.

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  • Dunn, Leone. 1988. 'Badimaya, a Western Australian language' pp. 19-49 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 17, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.

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