Baanbay

{{Short description|Indigenous people of New South Wales}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2017}} 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.{{sfn|Hoddinott|1967|pp=56–60}}

==Country== The Banbai were a Northern Tablelands tribe whose lands are estimated by Norman Tindale to have covered some {{convert|2,300|mi2|km2}}, taking in Ben Lomond, Glencoe, Marowan, Mount Mitchell, and Kookabookra. They were also present along the Boyd River valley.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=191}}

==People== The Banbai appear to be closely related, as an inland people, to the coastal Gumbaynggirr.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=112}}

==Alternative names== * ''Ahnbi'' * ''Bahnbi'' * ''Dandi''

Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=191}}

==Some words== * ''bodyerra'' (boy) * ''dillanggan'' (girl) * ''ginggēr'' (kangaroo) * ''wandyi'' (dog)

Source: {{harvnb|Hoddinott|1967|p=58}}

==Notes== {{notelist}}

===Citations=== {{Reflist|25em}}

==Sources== {{refbegin|35em}} *{{Cite journal | title = The BA:NBAI Language of Northern New South Wales | last = Hoddinott | first = W. G. | journal = Oceania | date = September 1967 | volume = 38 | issue = 1 | pages = 56–60 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1967.tb00935.x | jstor = 40329645

}} *{{Cite journal | title = Ngarrabul and other aboriginal tribes: distribution of tribes | last = MacPherson | first = J. | journal = Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales | year = 1904 | volume = 29 | pages = 677–684 | doi = 10.5962/bhl.part.20175 | url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6327477

}} *{{Cite journal | title = Languages of the New England aborigines | last = Mathews | first = R. H. | author-link = Robert Hamilton Mathews | journal = Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society | year = 1903 | volume = 42 | pages = 249–263 | url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26865790

}} *{{Cite journal | title = Notes on the social organization of Australian tribes | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = A. R. | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | year = 1918 | volume = 48 | pages = 222–253

}} *{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of Australian Tribes | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = A. R. | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Oceania | date = April 1930 | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 34–63 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1930.tb00003.x | jstor = 40373034

}} *{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of Australian Tribes. Part II | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = A. R. | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Oceania | date = July 1930 | volume = 1 | issue = 2 | pages = 206–246 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1930.tb01645.x | jstor = 40327321

}} *{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of Australian Tribes Part II (Continued) | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = A. R. | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Oceania | date = October–December 1930 | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = 322–341 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1930.tb01652.x | jstor = 40327330

}} *{{Cite journal | title = The Social Organization of Australian Tribes: Part III | last = Radcliffe-Brown | first = A. R. | author-link = Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | journal = Oceania | date = January–March 1931 | volume = 1 | issue = 4 | pages = 426–456 | doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1931.tb00015.x | jstor = 40327343

}} *{{Cite book| chapter = Banbai (NSW) | last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974 | author-link = Norman Tindale | title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names | publisher = Australian National University | chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/banbai.htm

}} {{refend}}

Category:Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales