The Bindal are an Indigenous Australian people of the state of

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Language

Bindal Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Terråk. Other villages include Bindalseidet, Holm, Vassås, Horsfjord and Åbygda. The m ...

(''Bendalgubba, Nyawaygi'') is an

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Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

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

Country

The Bindal's coastal reaches lay around the Burdekin River's outlet into the

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at Upstart Bay, running northwards as far as Cape Cleveland and inland to the

Leichhardt Range The Leichhardt Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, is a mountain range located in North Queensland, Australia. The range runs parallel with the coast about west of Mackay and has an average elevation of . It is composed of a series of rugg ...

. They were the indigenous people of Ayr. Norman Tindale estimated the overall extent of their lands at about .

Alternative names

* ''Bendalgubber'' * ''North Murri''

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