The Lower Burdekin languages were probably three distinct
Australian Aboriginal languages spoken around the mouth of the
Burdekin River
The Burdekin River is a river located in North and Far North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the northern slopes of Boulder Mountain at Valley of Lagoons, part of the western slope of the Seaview Range, and flows into the Coral Sea a ...
in north
Queensland
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, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
. One short wordlist in each was collected in the 19th century, and published in the second volume of ''
The Australian Race'' in 1886. These languages have since gone
extinct, with no more having been recorded. Due to the paucity of the available data, almost nothing of their
grammatical structure is known.
The O'Connor language goes by the name
Yuru, and may have been
Dyirbalic;
others may have been
Maric. However, Breen analyzed two of the lists and concluded that they were different languages, neither Maric.
He presumes that one of them was
Bindal
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The mu ...
.
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{{Australian Aboriginal languages
Extinct languages of Queensland
Northeast Pama–Nyungan languages