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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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Dyirbal /ˈdʒɜːrbəl/ (also Djirubal) is an
Australian Aboriginal language spoken in
northeast Queensland by the
Dyirbal people. In 2016, the Australian...
- (****u-Yalanji), Djabu****, Yidiny,
Ngadjan (
Dyirbal), Mamu (
Dyirbal),
Jirrbal (
Dyirbal),
Girramay (
Dyirbal), and Warungu.
While these were
often mutually...
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branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are:
Dyirbalic Dyirbalic proper Dyirbal Warrgamay Nyawaygic Wulguru Nyawaygi At
least one of the
Lower Burdekin...
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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...
- The
Dyirbal, also
called Jirrbal, are an
Aboriginal Australian people living in
northern Queensland, both one
tribe (the Dyirbalŋan or 'Tully
River blacks')...
- 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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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...
- 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"...
- such as
Dyirbal, but can also be
found in some
Native American languages,
including Navajo, and some
Bantu languages,
including Zulu. The
Dyirbal language...
