Badimaya
The Badimaya people (also written Badimia) are an Aboriginal Australian people from the Mid west region of Western Australia.
Country
Traditional Badimaya country was calculated by Tindale to encompass approximately 11,300 square miles (29,000 km2), and is bordered by the Western Desert language groups of the Tjuparn and the Wanmala to the east, the Noongar to the south-west and Watjarri to the north-west.[1][2]
This country covers Cue, Nannine and Mount Magnet to the north, Paynes Find to the south, Yalgoo to the southwest, and the northwest lay along the Sandford River.[3]
Language
Badimaya belongs to the Kartu branch of the Pama–Nyungan family.[4] It is a critically endangered language, however there is a strong language revival movement underway in the Badimaya community. [5]
Social organisation and customs
The Badimaya were reported to practise both circumcision and subincision.[3]
Notable people
Alternative names and spellings
Names according to Norman Tindale:[3]
- Badimala
- Badimara
- Barimaia, Bardimaia, Badimaia
- Bidungu (Watjarri exonym, meaning "rockhole water drinkers," implying shiftlessness)
- Padimaia
- Parimaia
- Patimara
- Waadal
- Wardal
Notes
Citations
- Wagner & George 2013.
- George & Edney 2017.
- Tindale 1974, p. 240.
- Blevins 2001, p. 78.
- "Irra Wangga Language Centre: Mid West languages: Badimaya". Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
Sources
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Blevins, Juliette (2001). Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-824-82375-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- George, Ollie (2017). Bednall, James; Chiera, Susan; Sitorus, Rosie (eds.). Nganang badimaya wangga: yarns with Gami Ollie George. Geraldton, W.A.: Bundiyarra-Irra Wangga Language Centre. ISBN 978-0-648-06240-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Tindale Tribal Boundaries" (PDF). Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia. September 2016.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Barimaia (WA)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Wagner, Johanna (ed.) (2013). On Badimaya country: Mount Magnet. Translated by James Bednall. designed by REV Design. Geraldton, WA Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health. ISBN 978-0-9871566-6-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)