BZR ISO 639-3
Biri
A language of Australia
- ISO 639
- bzr
- Alternate Names
- Juipera, Widi, Wierdi, Wirdi, Wiri, Wiriwiri, Wirri, Yuwibara
- Population
- No known L1 speakers. Last known speakers survived into the 1980s (Wurm and Hattori 1981).
- Location:
- Queensland state: southeast of Charters Towers.
- Language Status
- 9 (Dormant).
- Classification
- Australian, Pama-Nyungan, Maric
- Dialects
- Yetimarala.
- Language Use
- Shifted to English [eng].
- Language Development
- Revitalization efforts (Wurm 2007).
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Queensland state: southeast of Charters Towers.
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