Bindal language

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Bindal
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Maric)
    • Bindal
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xbd
AIATSIS[1] E61

Bindal is an extinct 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.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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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