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

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|region=[[Australia]]

|ethnicity=[[Djaberadjabera]]

|extinct=1980s?

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|familycolor=Australian

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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.

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>

==References==