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

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

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

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

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...

branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are: Dyirbalic Dyirbalic proper Dyirbal Warrgamay Nyawaygic Wulguru Nyawaygi At least one of the Lower Burdekin...

such as Dyirbal, but can also be found in some Native American languages, including Navajo, and some Bantu languages, including Zulu. The Dyirbal language...

members, such as the mother-in-law's brother in Warlpiri or cross-cousins in Dyirbal. All relations are classificatory – more people may fall into the "mother-in-law"...

version of gudaga, the word for the animal in Yidin, which exists also in Dyirbal, though there shortened to guda. With this insight, Mbabaram suddenly appeared...

Aboriginal languages of Australia, but taking a particular interest in Dyirbal. Dixon has written on many areas of linguistic theory and fieldwork, being...

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...

construction (I was hugged by him). But in an ergative–absolutive language like Dyirbal, "I" in the transitive I hug him would involve the ergative case, but the...

Bundjalung (see also Yugambeh-Bandjalangic peoples) Darumbal Djabugay Dyirbal (Jirrbal) Gangulu Goreng Goreng Gubbi Gubbi Guwinmal (Koinjmal) Jandai...

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

form one of 8 groups of the generically named Dyirbal tribes, the others being Yidinji, Ngajan, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaram. Mamu...

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

depending on who is listening. For example, in the Australian language Dyirbal, a married man must use a special set of words to refer to everyday items...

of 8 groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaram, of the Dyirbal tribes. Ngajanji/Ngadyan was according to...

enclosed 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...

the 2021 census, the locality of Tully had a population of 2,368 people. Dyirbal (also known as Djirbal) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly...

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...

Wombelbara (Warakamai exonym) gamu (water) cf. Dyirbal bana gumbul (woman) cf. Dyirbal jugumbil garba (ear) cf. Dyirbal manga wuyan, a verb meaning to "keep on...

inventory is not atypical of Australian languages. Though smaller, the Dyirbal dyadic kin-term inventory is also extensive (e and y stand for elder and...

a transitive verb he pushed the door and it opened Basque | Chechen | Dyirbal | Georgian | Kashmiri | Samoan | Tibetan | Tlingit | Tsez Ergative-genitive...

Not all languages have tense: tenseless languages include Chinese and Dyirbal.: 50–53  Some languages have all three basic tenses (the past, present...

disjunction itself is a linguistic universal. In many languages such as Dyirbal and Maricopa, disjunction is marked using a verb suffix. For instance,...

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...

manufactured, and so forth. An example of the latter is found in the Dyirbal language. Other gender systems exist with no distinction between masculine...

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

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