Editing Dyirbal language (section)

== Young Dyirbal ==
In the 1970s, speakers of Dyirbal and Giramay dialects purchased land in the Murray Upper, with the assistance 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".<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Schmidt|first=Annette|date=1985|title=The Fate of Ergativity in Dying Dyirbal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/414150|journal=Language|volume=61|issue=2|pages=378–396|doi=10.2307/414150|jstor=414150|issn=0097-8507|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Young Dyirbal is grammatically distinct from Traditional Dyirbal, in some cases being more similar to English, such as the gradual loss of ergative inflection, as is found in Traditional Dyirbal, in favour of a style of inflection more similar to the one found in English.<ref name=":2" />