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Barna language

Biri
Eastern Maric
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
  • Biri
  • Gangulu
  • Wirri (Widi, Yuwibara)
  • Yilba
  • Baradha
  • Yambina
  • Yetimarala
  • Garanjbal
  • Yangga
  • Mandalgu
  • Giya (Bumbarra)?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
 – Biri
 – Gangulu
 – Garingbal
Glottolog east2716
AIATSIS E56 Biri, E58 Giya, E65* Mandalgu

Biri (Biria, Birigaba) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. A grammar of Biri proper was written before the language became extinct.

Giya may have been a dialect. Barna, spoken by the Aminungo in the midst of identified Biri dialects, may have been as well.

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


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