Kabi | |
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Kabi Kabi, Gubbi Gubbi | |
Region | Queensland |
Ethnicity | Kabi Kabi (Kabi), Butchulla (incl. Ngulungbara) |
Native speakers | 24 of the Batjala dialect (2016 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Dialects |
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Official status | |
Official language in | Aboriginal Shire of Cherbourg |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:gbw – Kabi-Kabixby – Batyala |
Glottolog | kabi1260 |
AIATSIS[2] | E29 Gubbi Gubbi, E30 Butchulla |
ELP | Gubbi Gubbi |
Batyala[3] | |
Badjala is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Gubbi Gubbi, also spelt Kabi Kabi, is a language of Queensland in Australia, formerly spoken by the Kabi Kabi people of South-east Queensland. The main dialect, Gubbi Gubbi, is extinct, but there are still 24 people with knowledge of the Butchulla dialect (also spelt Batjala, Batyala, Badjala, and variants), a language spoken by the Butchulla people of K'gari (Fraser Island).