Djabirr-Djabirr language

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Dyaberdyaber
Dyaberdyaber
Region Australia
Ethnicity Djaberadjabera
Extinct 1980s? [1]
Nyulnyulan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dyb
Glottolog dyab1238 [2]
AIATSIS [1] K8

Dyaberdyaber (Jabirr Jabirr) is a Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the coast south of Beagle Bay in Western Australia. Earlier sources spelled the name DjaberrDjaberr or Dyaberdyaber; the contemporary accepted spelling is Jabirr-Jabirr, which reflects the spelling conventions of languages of the Kimberley region. [3]

Nyulnyulan languages

The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia. Most languages in this family are extinct, with only 3 extant languages, all of which are almost extinct.

Western Australia State in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

The language is closely related to Nyulnyul and probably close enough to be mutually intelligible. [4] The source materials from Nekes and Worms' (1953) "Australian Languages" list numerous similarities.

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References

  1. 1 2 K8 Dyaberdyaber at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dyaberdyaber". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Bowern, C. 2012 "A Grammar of Bardi". Berlin: Mouton
  4. McGregor, W and B Stokes. Classifying the Nyulnyulan languages. in N. Evans (ed) "The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia" Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2003