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{{Short description|Extinct Nyulnyulan language of Australia}}

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{{Infobox language

|name=Dyaberdyaber

|nativename=Dyaberdyaber

|region=[[Australia]]

|ethnicity=[[Djaberadjabera]]

|extinct=1980s?

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|familycolor=Australian

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The '''DyaberdyaberJabirr Jabirr language''', (Jabirralso known as '''Djabirr-Jabirr)Djabirr''', is a Western [[Nyulnyulan languages|Nyulnyulan]] language formerly spoken by the [[Jabirr Jabirr]] people on the coast south of [[Beagle Bay (Community, Western Australia)|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.<ref>Bowern, C. 2012 "A Grammar of Bardi". Berlin: Mouton</ref> It is also sometimes spelt '''Jabba Jabba'''.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|series=Life|url=https://www.abc.net.au/life/education-is-the-key-to-keeping-bardi-language-culture-strong/11271482|title=Education is the key to keeping Bardi language and culture strong|first=Vincent|last=McKenzie|date=13 August 2019|access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>

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

'''Dyaberdyaber''' (Jabirr-Jabirr) is a Western [[Nyulnyulan languages|Nyulnyulan]] language formerly spoken on the coast south of [[Beagle Bay (Western Australia)|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<ref>Bowern, C. 2012 "A Grammar of Bardi". Berlin: Mouton</ref>

Jabirr Jabirr is {{as of|lc=yes|2020}} part of a [[language revival]] project. Jabirr Jabirr is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the [[Department of Communications and the Arts]]. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".<ref>{{cite web|website=First Languages Australia|url=https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/projects/plsp|title=Priority Languages Support Project|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113071114/https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/projects/plsp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Australian Aboriginal languages}}

{{Languages of Australia}}

[[Category:Nyulnyulan languages]]