Burduna language

Burduna (also spelled Boordoona, Budina, Budoona, Buduna, Poodena, Poordoona, Purduma, Purduna) and Bayungu (Payungu) is an aboriginal language, or pair of languages, of Western Australia. It is spoken in Henry and upper Lyndon rivers region. It is endangered or perhaps extinct.

Burduna
Bayungu
Native toAustralia
RegionHenry and upper Lyndon rivers
EthnicityBuruna, Baiyungu
Native speakers
2 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bxn  Burduna (extinct?)
bxj  Bayungu (extinct)
Glottologburd1238  Burduna[2]
bayu1240  Bayungu[3]
AIATSIS[1]W24 Purduna, W23 Payungu

References

  1. W24 Purduna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Burduna". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bayungu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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