Bardi language

Bardi language
Bardi
Spoken in Australia
Ethnicity Bardi
Native speakers 16  (1996)
Language family
Nyulnyulan
  • Western
    • Bardi
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bcj

Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language. There are approximately 20 speakers out of an ethnic population of 380.

Classification

Bardi is a member of the Nyulnyulan language family. It is a member of the Western branch of the family.

According to R. M. W. Dixon (2002), the following dialects are mutually intelligible with Bardi:

Ethnologue (206) treats all but Ngumbarl as distinct languages, and this view is supported by those linguists who have worked on the languages, including Claire Bowern and William McGregor. It is also the view of Bardi speakers.

There is considerable documentation of the Bardi language, but most of it is unpublished. The earliest work on the language dates from the 1880s, although that has been lost. The earliest records are from the very early 20th century. Gerhardt Laves spent some time on Sunday island in the late 1920s and recorded extensive textual materials, and steady documentation has progressed since the late 1960s.

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