Baradha is a Biri E56 dialect from Central Queensland.
Breen reports that Tindale's 1938 work used a subscript grave accent under the final consonant, which he interprets as interdental articulation, thus the spelling Baradha. He questions part of the location provided by Tindale in his earlier work (1938 in Breen 2009:229), saying that Apis Creek and Cleve (Clive) seem too far south.
Other dialects of the Biri language include Biri E56, Yangga E52, Yilba E55, Miyan E50, Wirri E57, Gabulbarra E45, Baranha E53, Yambina E51, Yetimarala E63, Garaynbal E38, Gangulu E40 and the Brown River language (Breen, 2009). There is an unpublished manuscript 'Baradha and Biri fieldnotes' c 1973 by Warwick Norman, a linguistics student at the Australian National University referred to by Breen and listed in his references.
On Connors River from Killarney north to Nebo; west to near Bombandy (Tindale 1974:165) ... includes Saltbush Park, Lotus Creek, Bombandy, Celeve [sic], Collaroy, Tierwonbo, Wardu (Funnel Creek), Bolingbroke and Apis Creek Stations or parts of them (Tindale 1938 in Breen 2009:229)
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Speaker numbers were measured differently across the censuses and various other sources listed in AUSTLANG. You are encouraged to refer to the sources.
Speaker numbers for ‘NILS 2004’ and ‘2005 estimate’ come from 'Table F.3: Numbers of speakers of Australian Indigenous languages (various surveys)' in 'Appendix F NILS endangerment and absolute number results' in McConvell, Marmion and McNicol 2005, pages 198-230 (PDF, 2.5MB).
Terrill, Angela. 1998. Biri. Munich: Lincom. Beale, Anthony. 1974. A grammar of the Biri language, ms.
