The Garandi language, also rendered Karundi, Garandji, Karrandee and other variants, is thought to be an extinct

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of the

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, Australia. It also known as Kotanda and Kutanda, names which are primarily assigned to

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(Khutant), and some sources view it as a dialect of this language. AIATSIS (

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) assigns a separate code to this language (G32), but it is status is "Potential data". There is disagreement among linguists as to whether there are one or two peoples.

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(1975) thinks that it could be related to Gugadji, but

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says that it belongs to the Southern Paman group and is not related to Gugadji.

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assigned the name

Kareldi The Kareldi was a name assigned by Norman Tindale to Aboriginal Australian peoples of the state of Queensland. There were two groups that went by this name, the Garandi (Karandi), after the Garandi language, and the Gkuthaarn (Kutanda, Kuthant, K ...

to both Garandi and Gkuthaarn (Kuthant/Kutanda) speakers, but this is not confirmed by others.

Alternative names

*Karrandee, Karundi, Garandji, Karindhi, Karanti, Karunti, Kurandi, Ka rantee, Karrandi, Gar und yih, Karun, Gooran; *Kotanda, Kutanda, Goothanto; *Kareldi.

References

{{Pama–Nyungan languages, Paman Paman languages Extinct languages of Queensland