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.

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

People
The Banbai appear to be closely related, as an inland people, to the coastal Gumbaynggirr.

Alternative names

 * Ahnbi
 * Bahnbi
 * Dandi

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Some words

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

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