Lower Burdekin languages

Lower Burdekin languages

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.

References

*cite book |last=Curr |first=Edward Micklethwaite |title=The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the Routes by Which It Spread Itself over That Continent |publisher=Government Printer |location=Melbourne |year=1886
*cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002| id=ISBN-10: 0521473780, ISBN-13: 9780521473781


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