Bindal people explained

The Bindal (aka Bendalgubber) are the Aboriginal Australian people whose ancestors originally possessed, occupied, used and enjoyed approximately 2600 km² of coastal country from the mouth of the Burdekin River north to Cape Cleveland, inland to Leichhardt Range, in the state of Queensland^[1]

Country

The Bindal people's coastal country includes the Burdekin River's outlet in the south, running northwards as far as Cape Cleveland and inland to the Leichhardt Range. They were the indigenous people of Ayr. Norman Tindale estimated the overall extent of their lands at about 1000mi2.

Language

Bindal is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan language family. Bowern suggests that it might have been a Maric language. Gavan Breen has classified it as one of the Lower Burdekin languages yet presumes that one of two Lower Burdekin languages, which he concluded were not Maric, is Bindal. Only some confused word lists survive bearing on Bindal.

Alternative names

• Bendalgubber
• North Murri

Notes

Citations

Sources

• Web site: How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia? . Bowern . Claire . Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web . 2011. (corrected 6 February 2012)
• Web site: E61 Bindal . 26 July 2019 . . 17 May 2022 . .
• Book: Dortens, Emma . The Lives of Stories: Three Aboriginal-Settler Friendships . . 2018 . 978-1-760-46240-6 .
• Book: Morrill, James . Sketch of a residence among the Aboriginals of Northern Queensland for seventeen years . James Morrill (castaway) . Gregory . Edmund . Courier Printing Office . Brisbane . 1866 . 1863 .
• Book: Morrill, James . Narrative of James Murrells' ('Jemmy Morrill') seventeen years' exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland : and his life and shipwreck and terrible adventures among savage tribes; their manners, customs, languages, and superstitions. Also Murrells' Rescue and return to Civilization . James Morrill (castaway) . Gregory . Edmund . Edmund Gregory . Brisbane . 1896 .
  • Book: Gregory, Edmund . Mount Elliott . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 2 . 448–453 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf . Internet Archive.
• Book: O'Conner, J. . Mouths of the Burdekin River . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 2 . 454–455 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf . Internet Archive.
• Book: Scott, J.Hall . Burdekin River, various tribes . 1886 . The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 2 . 492–501 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf . Internet Archive.
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Bindal (QLD) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/bindal.htm.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bindal (QLD) . 23 January 2024 . . 23 January 2024 .