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Bindal
Native toAustralia
RegionQueensland
Extinct(date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Maric)
    • Bindal
Language codes
ISO 639-3xbd
Glottologbind1237  see Lower Burdekin languages
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. (See Lower Burdekin languages for more information.)

References

  1. ^ a b 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)