| Bungandidj | |
| Nativename: | Buwandik |
| Region: | South-east South Australia South-west Victoria |
| Ethnicity: | Bungandidj |
| Extinct: | (date missing) |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | Southeastern |
| Fam3: | Victorian |
| Fam4: | Kulin–Bungandidj |
| Dia1: | Bungandidj |
| Dia2: | Pinejunga |
| Dia3: | Mootatunga |
| Dia4: | Wichintunga |
| Dia5: | Polinjunga[1] |
| Iso3: | xbg |
| Aiatsis: | S13 |
| Glotto: | bung1264 |
| Glottorefname: | Bunganditj |
Bungandidj is a language of Australia, spoken by the Bungandidj people, Indigenous Australians who lived in an area which is now in south-eastern South Australia and in south-western Victoria. According to Christina Smith and her book on the Buandig people, the Bungandidj called their language drualat-ngolonung (speech of man), or Booandik-ngolo (speech of the Booandik).[2] As of 2017, there is a revival and maintenance programme under way for the language.[3]
Historical variants of the name include: 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.
Bungandidj phonology is typical of Australian languages generally, sharing characteristics such as a single series of stops (no voicing contrast) at six places of articulation, a full corresponding set of nasals, laminals at all four coronal places of articulation and two glides.[4] Extrapolating from historical written sources and knowledge of surrounding languages, Blake posits the following consonant inventory:
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Plosive | p pronounced as /link/ | k pronounced as /link/ | th pronounced as /link/ | tj pronounced as /link/ | t pronounced as /link/ | rt pronounced as /link/ | |
| Nasal | m pronounced as /link/ | ng pronounced as /link/ | nh pronounced as /link/ | ny pronounced as /link/ | n pronounced as /link/ | rn pronounced as /link/ | |
| Flap/Trill | rr pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Lateral | lh pronounced as /link/ | ly pronounced as /link/ | l pronounced as /link/ | rl pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Approximant | w pronounced as /link/ | y pronounced as /link/ | r pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i pronounced as /link/ | u pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | a pronounced as /link/ |
Smith (1880), on pages 138–139, records a poem written in Bungandidj :