The Lower Burdekin languages were probably three distinct Aboriginal languages, or alternatively dialects of a single language, spoken around the mouth of the

Burdekin River The Burdekin River is a river 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 at Upsta ...

in north

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

. 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 Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

, with no more having been recorded. Due to the paucity of the available data, almost nothing of their

grammatical structure In linguistics, grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern the use of clauses, phrases, and words. The term may also refer to the study of such rul ...

is known. The O'Connor language goes by the name Yuru, and may have been Dyirbalic; others may have been Maric. However, Breen analysed two of the lists and concluded that they were different languages, neither Maric. He presumes that one of them was

Bindal Bindal may refer to: People *Bindal people, an Indigenous Australian people of the state of North Queensland *Rajeev Bindal, a former minister of health and family welfare in Himachal Pradesh, India *Rajesh Bindal, an Indian judge Places *Bindal M ...

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References

* * {{Australian Aboriginal languages Extinct languages of Queensland Northeast Pama–Nyungan languages