Badimaya
Badimaya was a Pama-Nyungan language once spoken in Australia.
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Badimaya (sometimes written Badimia) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is a member of the Kartu subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan family, spoken by the Badimaya people of the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Badimaya is a critically endangered language, spoken by only a handful of elderly Aboriginal people, all of whom are over 65 years of age. However, there is a passionate movement of language revival underway in the Badimaya community.
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Words in Badimaya
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| eye | guru* | |
| ear | kulga* | |
| nose | muLa* | |
| tongue | TalaN* | |
| hand | mara* | |
| blood | Nuba* | |
| bone | 8aba* | |
| skin | wo5a* | |
| knee | Tada* | |
| breast | mimi* | |
| water | gabi* | |
| fire | waTan* | |
| sun | garaN* | |
| star | bundara* | |
| stone | mada* | |
| tree | winda* | |
| leaf | birili* | |
| night | maru* | |
| dog | 8u8u* | |
| fish | winiLa* | |
| one | guriya* | |
| two | gu8a* | |
| I | Na8u* | |
| you | 4undu* | |
| we | Nalimi* | |
| see | 4a* | |
| hear | guwanda* | |
| die | mula* | |
| come | yan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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