Badjiri language

Badjiri
Native to Australia
Extinct (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jbi
Glottolog badj1244[1]
AIATSIS[2] D31

Badjiri is an extinct language of Australia. It is often assumed to be a dialect of Ngura, but the data are poor, and Ngura is not a coherent language. Bowern (2001) thinks it is probably not a Karnic language (which some of the Ngura "dialects" are); Bowern (2011) lists it as Maric.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Badjiri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Badjiri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies