Badjiri is an extinct

Aboriginal Australian language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

once spoken by the

Badjiri The Badjiri people, also written Budjari or Badyidi, are an Australian Aboriginal people of just north of the Paroo River, close to the southern border of Queensland. They are not to be confused with the Pitjara/Bidjara people of the Warrego ...

people of southern

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

. Bowern suspects it's a Maric language. Bowern (2001) said the data was too sketchy to be sure, but Bowern (2011) assigned it to Maric without comment.

References

*Dixon, R. M. W. 2002. ''Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development.'' Cambridge University Press *{{cite book, author=Bowern, Claire , year=2001 , url=https://yale.academia.edu/ClaireBowern/Papers/1002425/Karnic_classification_revisited , chapter=Karnic classification revisited , editor=J Simpson , title=Forty years on , pages=245–260 , publisher=Canberra Pacific Linguistics , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103181833/http://yale.academia.edu/ClaireBowern/Papers/1002425/Karnic_classification_revisited , archivedate=2021-11-03 , display-editors=etal , url-status=dead

External links

Bibliography of Badjiri language and people resources
at the

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, ...

Maric languages