Kingkel is a putative small branch of the Pama–Nyungan family in

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, consisting of: * Bayali * Dharumbal. The two languages are not close. Bowern (2011) reclassified Darumbal as a Maric language, but did not address Bayali. Bouckaert, Bower, and Atkinson (2018), based on more data and languages of the region, classify Darumbal as a sister of Mbabaram (and therefore related to Maric languages, though as the first to branch off within that group). Bayali is grouped with the Waka-Kabi languages to the south. Tribes around Gladstone1

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Indigenous Australian languages in Queensland {{Ia-lang-stub