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 , 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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