Ethnicity Buandig ISO 639-3 xbg | Extinct (date missing) | |
Region South-east South Australia
South-west Victoria Language family Pama–Nyungan
Southeastern
Victorian
Kulin–Bunganditj
Bunganditj Dialects Bungandik
Pinejunga
Mootatunga
Wichintunga
Polinjunga | ||
Bunganditj or Buandig (Buwandik) is a language of Australia, spoken by the Buandig people, Indigenous Australians who lived in the Mount Gambier region in present-day south-eastern South Australia and in south-western Victoria.
According to Christina Smith and her book on the Buandig people, the Buandig called their language Drualat-ngolonung (speech of man), or Booandik-ngolo (speech of the Booandik).
Variants of the name are Bunganditj, Bungandaetch, Bunga(n)daetcha, Bungandity, Bungandit, Buganditch, Bungaditj, Pungantitj, Pungatitj, Booganitch, Buanditj, Buandik, Booandik, Boandiks, Bangandidj, Bungandidjk, Pungandik, Bak-on-date, Barconedeet, Booandik-ngolo, Borandikngolo, Bunganditjngolo, and Burhwundeirtch.
References
Bungandidj language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA