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    Dyirbal /ˈdʒɜːrbəl/ (also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by the Dyirbal people. In 2016, the Australian...
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  • Dyirbal may refer to: Dyirbal people, an ethnic group of Australia Dyirbal language, their language Gerbil (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • The Dyirbal, also called Jirrbal, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in northern Queensland, both one tribe (the Dyirbalŋan or 'Tully River blacks')...
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    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Boston: MIT Press. Dixon, Robert M.W. (1972). The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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    Ergativity in Dying Dyirbal". Language Vol. 61, No. 2: 378–396. Ladefoged, Peter (1992). "Another view of endangered languages". Language. 68 (4): 809–811...
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  • (Kuku-Yalanji), Djabugay, Yidiny, Ngadjan (Dyirbal), Mamu (Dyirbal), Jirrbal (Dyirbal), Girramay (Dyirbal), and Warungu. While these were often mutually...
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    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,...
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  • 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...
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  • Noun class (category CS1 Danish-language sources (da))
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Honorifics (linguistics) (category Articles containing Hindi-language text)
    found in some Native American languages, including Navajo, and some Bantu languages, including Zulu. The Dyirbal language has a special avoidance speech...
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    Gender (category CS1 Ukrainian-language sources (uk))
    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...
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  • Ngajanji (section Language)
    of 8 groups, the others being Yidin, Mamu, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaram, of the Dyirbal tribes. Ngajanji/Ngadyan was according to...
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  • 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...
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  • Pragmatics (category Philosophy of language)
    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...
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    the Atherton Tableland including Atherton and Kairi. Dyirbal (also known as Djirbal) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around...
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  • Zulu society." Language Matters (1997): 171-181. Lecture notes on Dyirbal illustrating mother-in-law language One of three "LanguageHat" blog posts in...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • named Dyirbal tribes, the others being Yidinji, Ngajan, Dyirbal, Girramay, Warrgamay, Waruŋu and Mbabaram. Mamu had a special mother-in-law language, called...
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    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...
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    produced is shipped elsewhere for further refining. Dyirbal (also known as Djirbal) is a language of Far North Queensland, particularly the area around...
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    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...
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  • to: Djiru people, an ethnic group of Australia Djiru language, a dialect of the Dyirbal language of Australia Djiru, Queensland, a locality in Australia...
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    Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    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...
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    The Dyirbalic languages are a group of languages forming a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are: Dyirbalic Dyirbalic proper Dyirbal Warrgamay Nyawaygic...
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  • Robert M. W. Dixon (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
    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...
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    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...
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  • from Short Bus Gerbil Scheme, a dialect of the Scheme programming language Dyirbal (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    The Western Desert language, or Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family. The name Wati tends to be used...
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    The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian...
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