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...

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...