Lower Burdekin languages

Lower Burdekin
Lower Burdekin
(geographic)
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Juru, Bindal?
Extinct	ca. 1900
Language family	Pama–Nyungan unclassified (Nyawaygic?) Lower Burdekin; ;
Dialects	Cunningham vocabulary; Gorton vocabulary; O'Connor vocabulary (Yuru);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xbb – inclusive code; Individual code:; ljx – Yuru
Linguist List	xbb
Glottolog	bind1234 Cunningham list; bind1235 Gorton list; bind1236 Mount Elliot (O'Connor) list; yuru1264 Yuru
AIATSIS	E62 Yuru
	Lower Burdekin languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

The Lower Burdekin languages were probably three distinct Australian Aboriginal languages spoken around the mouth of the Burdekin River in north Queensland. One short wordlist in each was collected in the 19th century, and published in the second volume of The Australian Race in 1886. These languages have since gone extinct, with no more having been recorded. Due to the paucity of the available data, almost nothing of their grammatical structure is known.

The O'Connor language goes by the name Yuru, and may have been Dyirbalic;^[2] others may have been Maric. However, Breen analysed two of the lists and concluded that they were different languages, neither Maric.^[2] He presumes that one of them was Bindal.^[3]

^ E62 Yuru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ ^a ^b "E62: Yuru". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ "E61: Bindal". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[AIATSIS-1] E62 Yuru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[AIATSIS-Yuru-2] "E62: Yuru". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[3] "E61: Bindal". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

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