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Dyir·bal (jûr

n. pl. Dyirbal or Dyir·bals

1. A member of an Aboriginal people of northeast Queensland, Australia.

2. The Pama-Nyungan language of this people, now nearly extinct.

[Dyirbal, tribal name.]

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Dyirbal - a language of Australian aborigines

Jirrbal

Aboriginal Australian, Australian - the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines

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Aboriginal Australian Australian Jirrbal	According to Bob Dixon, in 1963 the Dyirbal language in northern Queensland was spoken by the whole community over the age of 35, amounting to 100 people. Endangered languages - Lost worlds by Ostler, Nicholas / Contemporary Review As an example, he cites the category "balan" in the Australian aboriginal language Dyirbal. Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, 2d ed by Franke, Katherine M. / Yale Law Journal This formulation aims to reconstruct the accepted understanding, but allows that a language (or subsystem of a language) may lack subjects, in this traditional sense: this is instantiated by Dyirbal, where a different grouping of arguments than is specified by the criterion share the equivalent syntactic and (most) morphosyntactic properties, and which on the basis of this set is described as "ergative" (Dixon 1979). Preliminaries to a history of sentential subjects in English by Anderson, John M. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies	dyed-in-the-wool Dyehouse dyeing dyeline Dyer dyer's broom dyer's greenweed dyer's mignonette dyer's rocket dyer's weed dyer's woad dyer's woodruff dyer's-broom dyer's-greenweed dyer's-weed dyers' chamomile dyestuff dyestuffs dyeweed dyewood dyeworks Dyfed dying Dyingly Dyingness Dyirbal dyke dykey Dylan Dylan Marlais Thomas Dylan Thomas dyn Dynactinometer Dynam dynameter Dynametrical dynamic dynamic balance dynamic electricity dynamic headroom dynamic pressure dynamic pricing dynamic psychology dynamic RAM dynamic range dynamic viscosity dynamical Dynamical electricity dynamical system Dynamical theory of heat dynamically	dying on the Order Paper dying on the vine dying on the vine dying on the vine dying on the vine dying out dying out dying out dying out dying the death dying the death dying the death dying the death dying to do dying to know dying with boots on dying with boots on dying with boots on dying with boots on dying with boots on Dying With Dignity Dying With Dignity Dying With Dignity Victoria Dying with Laughter dying-back disease dying-back neuropathy Dyingly Dyingly Dyingly Dyingness Dyirbal Dyirbal language Dyirbals DYJ DYJA Dyje DYJGTIT DYJHIW DYJLA DYJLI DYJO DYK Dyk, Viktor Dykanka DYKC dyke dyke dyke Dyke & Howard Dyke (disambiguation) Dyke (disambiguation) Dyke (slang) Dyke (technical) dyked dyked dykes dykes Dykes to Watch Out For dykey dykey DYKH

According to Bob Dixon, in 1963 the Dyirbal language in northern Queensland was spoken by the whole community over the age of 35, amounting to 100 people.

Endangered languages - Lost worlds by Ostler, Nicholas / Contemporary Review

As an example, he cites the category "balan" in the Australian aboriginal language Dyirbal.

Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, 2d ed by Franke, Katherine M. / Yale Law Journal

This formulation aims to reconstruct the accepted understanding, but allows that a language (or subsystem of a language) may lack subjects, in this traditional sense: this is instantiated by Dyirbal, where a different grouping of arguments than is specified by the criterion share the equivalent syntactic and (most) morphosyntactic properties, and which on the basis of this set is described as "ergative" (Dixon 1979).

Preliminaries to a history of sentential subjects in English by Anderson, John M. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies

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