Bayali language

Bayali
Region Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bjy (includes unrelated Darambal)
Glottolog baya1257[1]
AIATSIS[2] E42

Bayali (Biyali, Baiali) is an extinct language of Queensland in Australia, spoken in the Rockhampton area. It has been classified together with Darumbal as a Kingkel language, but the two are not close, and Bowern (2011) reclassified Darumbal as a Maric language.

Map of traditional lands of Aboriginal people around Mackay, Rockhampton and Gladstone Queensland.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bayali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Bayali at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


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