Lower Burdekin languages

Lower Burdekin
Region	Queensland, Australia
Extinct	ca. 1900
Language family	Pama–Nyungan (unclassified: Nyawaygic?) Lower Burdekin
Dialects	Cunningham vocabulary Gorton vocabulary O'Connor vocabulary (Yuru)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual code:  – Yuru
Linguist List	xbb
Glottolog	bind1234  Cunningham list bind1235  Gorton list bind1236  Mount Elliot (O'Connor) list yuru1264  Yuru
AIATSIS	E62 Yuru
The Burdekin River in 2005
Lower Burdekin languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

The Lower Burdekin languages were probably three distinct Australian Aboriginal languages spoken around the mouth of the Burdekin River in north Queensland. One short wordlist in each was collected in the 19th century, and published in the second volume of The Australian Race in 1886. These languages have since gone extinct, with no more having been recorded. Due to the paucity of the available data, we know almost nothing of their grammatical structure.

The O'Connor language goes by the name Yuru, and may have been Dyirbalic; others may have been Maric. However, Breen analyzed two of the lists and concluded that they were different languages, neither Maric. He presumes that one of them was Bindal.