Badimaya language

Not to be confused with Mayi-Kutuna language or Maya language (Australia).

Badimaya
Native toAustralia
RegionMurchison area of Western Australia
EthnicityBadimaya, Widi
Native speakers
20 (2021 census)[1]
Revival[2]
Dialects
  • Northern
  • Southern
Language codes
ISO 639-3bia
Glottologbadi1246
AIATSIS[3]A14
ELPBadimaya

Badimaya (sometimes written Badimia) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is a member of the Kartu subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan family, spoken by the Badimaya people of the Mid West region of Western Australia.

Badimaya is a critically endangered language, spoken by only a handful of elderly Aboriginal people, all of whom are over 65 years of age.[3] However, there is a passionate movement of language revival underway in the Badimaya community.[2]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Irra Wangga Language Centre: Mid West languages: Badimaya". Bundiyarra Aboriginal Community Aboriginal Corporation. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b A14 Badimaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies