Dyirbal /ˈdʒɜːrbəl/ (also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by the Dyirbal people. In 2016, the Australian...

Dyirbal may refer to: Dyirbal people, an ethnic group of Australia Dyirbal language, their language Gerbil (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Boston: MIT Press. Dixon, Robert M.W. (1972). The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Cambridge: Cambridge...

The Dyirbal, also called Jirrbal, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in northern Queensland, both one tribe (the Dyirbalŋan or 'Tully River blacks')...

Ergativity in Dying Dyirbal". Language Vol. 61, No. 2: 378–396. Ladefoged, Peter (1992). "Another view of endangered languages". Language. 68 (4): 809–811...

(Kuku-Yalanji), Djabugay, Yidiny, Ngadjan (Dyirbal), Mamu (Dyirbal), Jirrbal (Dyirbal), Girramay (Dyirbal), and Warungu. While these were often mutually...

method. The book's title was inspired by the noun class system of the Dyirbal language, in which the "feminine" category includes nouns for women, water,...

in boxes or etltonh which refers to objects enclosed in bags. The Dyirbal language is well known for its system of four noun classes, which tend to be...

Press. pp. 21–32. ISBN 978-1-107-01785-6. Dixon, R. M. W. (1972). The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Cambridge University Press. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-521-08510-6...

found in some Native American languages, including Navajo, and some Bantu languages, including Zulu. The Dyirbal language has a special avoidance speech...

Zulu society." Language Matters (1997): 171-181. Lecture notes on Dyirbal illustrating mother-in-law language One of three "LanguageHat" blog posts in...

of an entity or how humans utilize an entity. For example, in the Dyirbal language, the morpheme balam marks each entity in its noun class with the semantic...

reinforces sociological distance, as seen in the Aboriginal Dyirbal language of Australia. In that language and some others, there is a social taboo against the...

of the four genders of the Dyirbal language consists mainly of fruit and vegetables. Languages of the Niger-Congo language family can have as many as...

belong to the former group are more numerous than those to the latter. Dyirbal is said to be the only representative of syntactic ergativity, yet it displays...

Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...

the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. Dyirbal (also known as Djirbal) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around...

the name for the language spoken by a people whose proper tribal name was Ngadyandyi. The Ngajanji spoke Ngadyan, a dialect of Dyirbal, and one showing...

There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling...

particularly noted for his work on the languages of Australia and the Arawá languages of Brazil. He has published grammars of Dyirbal, Yidiɲ, Warrgamay, Nyawaygi...

named Dyirbal tribes, the others being Yidinji, Ngajan, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaram. Mamu had a special mother-in-law language, called...

to: Djiru people, an ethnic group of Australia Djiru language, a dialect of the Dyirbal language of Australia Djiru, Queensland, a locality in Australia...

The Dyirbalic languages are a group of languages forming a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are: Dyirbalic Dyirbalic proper Dyirbal Warrgamay Nyawaygic...

Dunk Island, known as Coonanglebah in the Warrgamay and Dyirbal languages, is an island within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland...

from Short Bus Gerbil Scheme, a dialect of the Scheme programming language Dyirbal (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

locality of Tully had a population of 2,368 people. Dyirbal (also known as Djirbal) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around...

Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 0-85575-234-3. Dixon, R. M. W (1972). The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. Dixon, R. M...

Woiwurrung, Taungurung and Boonwurrung are Aboriginal languages of the Kulin nation of Central Victoria. Woiwurrung was spoken by the Woiwurrung and related...

Ravenshoe district are the Jirrbal people who speak a dialect of the Dyirbal language. The site of the present day Ravenshoe was first settled by pastoralists...

neuter genders are recognized). Pama–Nyungan languages including Dyirbal and other Australian languages have gender systems such as: Masculine, feminine...