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{{short description|Australian Aboriginal language}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox language | name = Dyirbal | nativename = | region = Northeast [[Queensland]] | ethnicity = [[Dyirbal people|Dyirbal]], [[Ngajanji]], [[Mamu people|Mamu]], [[Gulngai]], [[Djiru people|Djiru]], [[Girramay]] | speakers = 21 | date = 2021 census | ref = <ref name="abs">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/cultural-diversity-census/2021/|title=Cultural diversity: Census|author=Australian Bureau of Statistics|access-date=13 October 2022|date=2021}}</ref> | familycolor = Australian | fam1 = [[Pama–Nyungan languages|Pama–Nyungan]] | fam2 = [[Pama–Nyungan languages|Eastern Pama–Nyungan]] | fam3 = [[Dyirbalic languages|Dyirbalic]] | dia1 = Jirrbal | dia2 = Mamu | dia4 = [[Girramay]] | dia5 = [[Gulngay]] | dia6 = [[Djirru]] | dia7 = [[Ngadjan]] | dia8 = [[Walmalbarra]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |author-link=R. M. W. Dixon |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780|page=xxxiii}}</ref> | map2 = Lang Status 40-SE.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Dyirbal is classified as Severely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}} | iso3 = dbl | glotto = dyir1250 | glottorefname = Dyirbal | aiatsis = Y123 | ELP2 = 5712 | ELPname2 = Girramay | map = Djirbalgan map.png | mapcaption = Area of historical use | notice = IPA }} '''Dyirbal''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɜr|b|əl}}<ref>Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh</ref> (also ''Djirubal'') is an [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Australian Aboriginal language]] spoken in northeast [[Queensland]] by the [[Dyirbal people]]. In 2016, the [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] reported that there were 8 speakers of the language.<ref name="abs"></ref> It is a member of the small [[Dyirbalic languages|Dyirbalic]] branch of the [[Pama–Nyungan languages|Pama–Nyungan family]]. It possesses many outstanding features that have made it well known among [[linguistics|linguist]]s. In the years since the Dyirbal grammar by [[Robert M. W. Dixon|Robert Dixon]] was published in 1972, Dyirbal has steadily moved closer to [[language death|extinction]] as younger community members have failed to learn it.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schmidt |first=A |title=Young People's Dyirbal: An Example of Language Death from Australia |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1985}}</ref>
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