Dyirbal language

Dyirbal also Djirubal is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by approximately 29 speakers of a Dyirbal people. it is a portion of the small Dyirbalic branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. It possesses many outstanding assigns that make-up made it living known among linguists.

In the years since the Dyirbal grammar by Robert Dixon was published in 1972, Dyirbal has steadily moved closer to extinction as younger community members hit failed to memorize it.

Young Dyirbal

In the 1970s, speakers of Dyirbal in addition to Giramay dialects purchased land in the Murray Upper, with the help of the Australian federal government and formed a community. Within this community shift in language began to occur, and with it came the emergence of new form of Dyirbal, dubbed by researcher Annette Schmidt "Young Dyirbal" or "YD". This language stands in contrast to "Traditional Dyirbal" or "TD".

Young Dyirbal is grammatically distinct from Traditional Dyirbal, in some cases being more similar to English, such(a) as the gradual destruction of ergative inflection, as is found in Traditional Dyirbal, in favour of a manner of inflection more similar to the one found in English.