Bungandidj language
| Bungandidj | |
|---|---|
| Buwandik | |
| Region |
South-east South Australia South-west Victoria |
| Ethnicity | Bungandidj people |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Dialects |
Bungandik
Pinejunga
Mootatunga
Wichintunga
Polinjunga[1]
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xbg |
| Glottolog |
bung1264[2] |
| AIATSIS[3] |
S13 |
Bungandidj or Buandig (Buwandik) is an extinct language of Australia, once 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 Bungandaitj, 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
- ↑ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxv.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bunganditj". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Bungandidj at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Christina Smith, The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, and Language, Spiller, 1880