Location: Duck Creek, south to Ashburton River, north-east to Hamersley Range, headwaters of the Robe and Cane Rivers; Austin (1983) situates the language south of the Ashburton River.
1. Names of the language and different spellings that have been used:
Binigura
Binnigoora
Binniguru
Pinneegoora
2. Classification of the language:
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966): Ngayarda
Identification codes:AIATSIS:W.34
Capell (1963):W.7
Oates (1975):50.7
Austin (1985c) classifies the language as Kanyara.
3. Dialects of the language:
No information
4. Present number and distribution of speakers:
Brandenstein (1967a): less than 10 speakers.
O'Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966) say there are no speakers.
Austin (1988b) says the language appears to have no speakers.
5. People who have worked intensively to record the language:
No one
6. Practical spelling system:
None
7. Word lists:
None
8. Texts:
Austin (1986g)
9. Grammar or sketch grammar:
None
10. Language programmes:
None
11. Language learning material:
None
12. Literature in the language:
None
13. Material available:
(see section 5 (Bibliography) for annotations on the following works)
Austin, P. (1978a) Fieldnotes - Dargari, Dhalandji, Yinggarda, Bayungu, Burduna, Dyiwarli, Binigura, Dyururu, MS.
Austin, P. (1978) Report on fieldwork - Carnarvon, November 1978, ts.
Austin, P. (1979a) A word list of the Kanyara languages, ts.
Austin, P. (1981a) 'Case marking in southern Pilbara languages', pp.211-226 in Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.1, no.2.
Austin, P. (1982c) Southern Pilbara phonology revisited. Paper presented at the ALS Annual Conference, Sydney, ts.
Austin, P. (1983) 'Southern Pilbara dictionaries', pp.1-17 in P. Austin, (ed.) Papers in Australian linguistics No.15: Australian Aboriginal lexicography, Pacific Linguistics, A-66, Canberra.
Austin, P. (1985c) Classification of Southern Pilbara languages. Revised version of a paper presented to the Pacific Science Congress, Dunedin, New Zealand, ts.
Austin, P. (1986d) Database reports (computer file and ts).
Austin, P. (1986e) Gascoyne-Ashburton languages project, Project Report 4, Annotated bibliography, ts.
Austin, P. (1986g) Kanyara languages: glossed sentences and texts (computer file and ts).
Austin, P. (1986j) Project report 1: placenames, ts.
Austin, P. (1986k) Southern Pilbara phonology, ts.
Austin, P. (1987d) Gascoyne-Ashburton Project, Project Report 6, Spelling of language names, Linguistics Division, La Trobe University.
Austin, P. (1988b) 'Classification of Southern Pilbara languages', pp.1-17 in Papers in Australian Linguistics No.17, Pacific Linguistics, A-71, Canberra. [Also Austin (1985c).]
Austin, P. (n.d.a) A reference grammar of the Kanyara languages, ts.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1966d) Report [to AIAS] on fieldwork 1-31 July 1966.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1967a) Interim report, 17 July-10 October 1967.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1968b) Interim report, 1968, no.1 (July-August).
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1968d) Linguistic routine report, October 1968.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1969e) Report on fieldwork, 1969.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1969g) The diaries of C.G. von Brandenstein, 1964-1969, MS.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (1982a) Eighty-eight grammar text sheets, exemplifying grammatical, lexical and phraseological diversities as well as links of 25 Aboriginal languages from Western Australia, ts.
Brandenstein, C.G. von (n.d.d) Tjururu text material, ts.
Dench, A.C. (1983a) Pilbara pronoun reconstructions, ts.
Dench, A.C. (1985d) Pilbara demonstrative reconstructions, ts.
Fink, R.A. (1956) Fieldnotes, 8 notebooks, MS.
Morphy, F. (1985) Working notes on Western Australian languages. Part of an ARGS project directed by R.M.W. Dixon.
O'Grady, G.N. (1966) 'Proto-Ngayarda phonology', pp.71-130 in Oceanic Linguistics, no.5.
O'Grady, G.N., C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin (1966) 'Languages of the world: Indo-Pacific fascicle 6', pp.1-197 in Anthropological Linguistics, Vol.8, no.2.
Palmer, K. (1977a) 'Aboriginal sites and the Fortescue River, north-west of Western Australia', pp.226-233 in Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, Vol.12, no.3.
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. (n.d.) North-west division short vocabulary, ts.
