Yaran language explained

Yaran
Familycolor:	australian
Also Known As:	Bindjali, Bodaruwitj
Fam1:	Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:	Kulinic
Fam3:	Kulin
Ethnicity:	Bodaruwitj
States:	Australia
Region:	South Australia
Iso3:	none
Aiatsis:	S15
Aiatsisname:	Bindjali / Bodaruwitj
Era:	last attested 1973
Nativename:	Uncoded languages: Potaruwutj

The Yaran language, also called Bindjali, is an extinct language spoken around the Padthaway district by the Bodaruwitj. William Haynes, an earlier resident of the area, provided E.M.Curr with two distinct vocabularies of the area, which he designated as that of the Tatiara. Norman Tindale compiled a word-list relying on information supplied to him by Milerum, whose mother Lakwunami was a Potaruwutj from the Keilira region. R.M: Dixon managed to elicit a vocabulary of Bindjali from a Bordertown informant, Bertie Pinkie, as late as 1973. In his classification, Polinjunga, one of the alternative names for the Bodaruwitj, or a clan name of the same, is listed as a dialect of the Bungandidj-Kuurn Kopan Noot subgroup of the Kulinic languages.

References

• Book: Lawson, Robert . The Padthaway tribe . 1879 . Folklore, manners, customs and languages of the South Australian aborigines . Taplin . George . George Taplin . E Spiller, Acting Government Printer . Adelaide . https://archive.org/download/folkloremannersc00taplrich/folkloremannersc00taplrich.pdf . 58–59.
• The Aboriginal languages of Victoria . Mathews . Robert Hamilton . Robert Hamilton Mathews . . 1902 . 36 . 71–106 . 10.5962/p.359381 . 259291856 . PDF. free.
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Potaruwutj (SA) . 1974 . Norman Tindale . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/potaruwutj.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6.
• Book: Haynes, William . The Tatiara Country . 1887 . The Australian Race: Its Origins, Language, Customs, Places of Landing and The Routes by which it spread Itself over that continent . Curr . Edward Micklethwaite . Edward Micklethwaite Curr . J. Ferres . Melbourne . 3 . 456–459 . https://archive.org/download/cu31924026093827/cu31924026093827.pdf.
• Book: Bringing the language home: the Ngarrindjeri dictionary project . Gale . Mary-Ann . Sparrow . Syd . 2010 . Re-awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages . Hobson . John Robert . . https://books.google.com/books?id=V-ku44jjLEQC&pg=PA398 . 387–401 . 978-1-920-89955-4.
• Book: Dixon, Robert M. W. . Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development . 2004 . Robert M. W. Dixon . First published 2002 . . 1 . 978-0-521-47378-1.