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Bayala is an indigenous language database that trys to draw meaning form word lists sourced in a range of cultural institution collections.

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Meaning of 'Bayala' (baya-la)
‘Baya’ is the Sydney Aboriginal language (BB) word for ‘speak’. With the RECIProcal and/or REFLexive suffix ‘-la’ it becomes ‘speak reciprocally’, or ‘converse’. This database in a sense ‘converse’ with the user, in that they are intended to interact with him or her. They were begun sometime before 1999. They started out as a simple word list with associated meanings as in a basic foreign-language dictionary. They are the work of Jeremy Macdonald Steele and in 2005 were submitted as part of a Macquarie master’s thesis on the Sydney Aboriginal language.
 
 
 

Dawes wrote it as “Nābaou-ínia”, and this on respelling in its simplest form becomes ‘nabawinya’ (without double letters or hyphens. The databases enable words such as this to be displayed revealing their constituent parts—here stem: na; future tense marker: ba; and two pronouns: wi: ‘I’ and nya: ‘thee’. All four parts of this word can then be separately searched for, and compared with other instances in other words across all the languages covered. They reveal that in south-east Queensland, na still means ‘see’, but in Perth na is an exclamation of surprise: Oh! Ah!.