| 释义 |
Dyirbal, n. (and a.)|djɜːrbəl|
Also Chirpal, Tjirbal, etc.
[Native name.]
An Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the vicinity of Tully and Atherton in N.E. Queensland; the people speaking this language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1901W. E. Roth N. Queensland Ethnogr. iii. 3 CHI = Chirpal blacks to be found at Atherton, etc. 1910Rec. Austral. Museum VIII. i. 91 At Atherton, the natives..belong to three groups or tribes speaking..chirpal, ngaikungo and ngachan. 1939Oceania IX. 442 The Ngatjan, Mamu, Tjirbal, Mudju and perhaps Ngaikungo may have not simply two moieties, but three phratries. 1968Lingua XXI. 104 The main aim of this paper is to discuss..the semantic basis of noun class membership in Dyirbal. 1972R. M. W. Dixon (title) The Dyirbal language of North Queensland. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 278 Yara. Inland and along the coast of east central Queensland, opposite the Great Barrier Reef...Djirbal = Djirubal = Tjirbal, [etc.]. 1977Language LIII. 288 Dyirbal.., a northeastern Australian language, has four noun classifiers. 1984Verbatim Summer 6/2 Chloe..worked out principles of gender in Dyirbal (involving a knowledge of Dyirbal science). |