Barada is an extinct Pama-Nyungan language of the Maric branch, traditionally spoken in central Queensland, Australia, inland from the coast along the Connors River between Killarney and Nebo. Its use was suppressed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including under the 1897 Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, and by 1880 the surviving Barada people numbered no more than about 100. Barada society was organized into two social divisions, Yangurru and Wudhurru, into which all natural phenomena were classified, and the people were also known by the name Toolginburra, from tulkun, their word for hill.
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