Burduna Dictionary, English - Burduna Finderlist and Thematic Wordlists

Publisher: Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
Date: 2007
Pages: 97
ISBN 1-921312-05-X.
Language:English/BurdunaThe Burduna language is the language of the Burduna people of the Ashburton-Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It is classified by researchers as a Pama-Nyungan language belonging to the Ganyara group. Other languages considered to be Ganyara are Bayungu, Binigura and Thalanyji; in these languages, the word for ‘man’ is ‘ganyara’. Neighbouring languages to Burduna include Nhuwala, Thalanyji, Bayungu, Kurrama, Martuthunira and Jurruru.
Burduna used to be spoken around Nyang and Maroonah Station, following the Yannarie River and then around the Lyndon River area. The area in and around Towera Station is still often spoken of as being a predominantly Burduna place. There are no speakers of the Burduna language left; Peter Austin identified only two speakers who were very old and ill by the late 1980s. Today, there are a few people who can still recognise and use bits of the language based in Onslow.