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XBG ISO 639-3

Bunganditj

A language of Australia

ISO 639
xbg
Alternate Names
Bak-on-date, Banaditj, Bangandadj, Bangandidj, Barconedeet, Baundik, Boandic, Boandik, Booandik, Booandik-ngolo, Booandki-ngolo, Booganitch, Booganity, Boongandity, Borandikngolo, Buadik, Buandic, Buandig, Buandik, Buanditj, Bugandity, Bung’andaetch, Bunganadity, Bungandaetch, Bungandaetcha, Bungandaitj, Bungandidj, Bungandij, Bunganditjngolo, Bungandity, Bunjanditj, Burhwundeirtch, Drualat-ngolonung, Drualatngolonung, Nguro, Pungandaitj, Pungandik, Pungantitj, Pungatitj
Population
No known L1 speakers. The last fluent speakers probably died in the late 1800s (Blake 2003).
Location:
South Australia state: Balmoral, Cape Jaffa, Casterton, Dartmoor, Glenelg river, Lake Mundi, Mount Gambier, Mount Zero, Penola, Robe, Wannon river, Western Grampians.
Language Status
10 (Extinct).
Classification
Australian, Pama-Nyungan, Bungandidj
Language Development
Grammar. There is an ongoing language program at Mount Gambier’s Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation and Penola Primary School (2016).
Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Bunganditj
Writing
Unwritten [Qaax].

Also Spoken in

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Location: South Australia state: Balmoral, Cape Jaffa, Casterton, Dartmoor, Glenelg river, Lake Mundi, Mount Gambier, Mount Zero, Penola, Robe, Wannon river, Western Grampians.