Baanbay

The Banbai are an Indigenous Australian people of New South Wales.

Language

Baanbai, which R. H. Mathews had treated as a distinct language, appears on closer analysis, according to W. G. Hoddinott, to have been a dialect of Gumbaiŋgar. if not indeed almost identical to the language spoken by that tribe.^[1]

Country

The Banbai were a Northern Tablelands tribe whose lands are estimated by Norman Tindale to have covered some 2,300 square miles (6,000 km²), taking in Ben Lomond, Glencoe, Marowan, Mount Mitchell, and Kookabookra. They were also present along the Boyd River valley.^[2]

People

The Banbai appear to be closely related, as an inland people, to the coastal Gumbaynggirr.^[3]

Alternative names

• Ahnbi
• Bahnbi
• Dandi

Source: Tindale 1974, p. 191

Some words

• bodyerra (boy)
• dillanggan (girl)
• ginggēr (kangaroo)
• wandyi (dog)

Source: Hoddinott 1967, p. 58

Notes

Citations

1. Hoddinott 1967, pp. 56–60.
2. Tindale 1974, p. 191.
3. Tindale 1974, p. 112.

Sources

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• MacPherson, J. (1904). "Ngarrabul and other aboriginal tribes: distribution of tribes". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 29: 677–684. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.20175.
• Mathews, R. H. (1903). "Languages of the New England aborigines". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 42: 249–263.
• Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (1918). "Notes on the social organization of Australian tribes". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 48: 222–253.
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• Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (October–December 1930). "The Social Organization of Australian Tribes Part II (Continued)". Oceania. 1 (3): 322–341. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1930.tb01652.x. JSTOR 40327330.
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• Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Banbai (NSW)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University.