Badimaya language
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Badimaya is an Australian Aboriginal language
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...

. It is a member of the Kartu
Kartu languages
The Kartu languages is the name given by linguists to a group of Indigenous Australian languages spoken in the Murchison and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia which are thought to be closely related and to descend from a relatively recent common ancestor....

 subgroup of the Southwest branch of the Pama–Nyungan family.

Badimaya country lies in the area between Mount Magnet and Dalwallinu. The Yamaji Language Centre has been carrying out work on the Badimaya language since 1993 and has produced an illustrated wordlist as well as grammatical materials and a dictionary (the latter two unpublished). A grammar of Badimaya was written by Leone Dunn in the 1980s.

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