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Definition: Dyirbal |
DyirbalNoun1. A language of Australian aborigines. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DyirbalSynonym: Jirrbal (n). (additional references) |
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Dyirbal actually has only four places of articulation for the stop consonants and nasal consonants - this is fewer than many other Australian Aborigine languages, which have six. The difference is because Dyirbal lacks the apical and laminal split found in many other Australian languages.
The language is best known for its system of classification, similar to grammatical gender. The noun class usually labeled "feminine", for instance, includes the word for fire and nouns relating to fire, as well as all dangerous creatures and phenomena. This inspired the title of the George Lakoff book "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things". Some linguists distinguish between such systems of classification and the gendered division of items into feminine, masculine, and sometimes neuter found in, for example, many Indo-European languages.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dyirbal language."
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| "Dyirbal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Dyirbal" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rabidly. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: aridly, bridal, drably, ribald. | |
-2 letters: badly, baldy, bialy, braid, brail, daily, dairy, diary, drail, drily, laird, lardy, liard, libra, lidar, lyard, rabid, riyal, yaird. | |
-3 letters: ably, abri, airy, arid, aril, aryl, bail, bald, bard, bird, birl, brad, bray, byrl, darb, dial, dirl, drab, dray, drib, idly, idyl, lady, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: bridally, diablery, ladybird, ribaldly, ribaldry. | |
+2 letters: admirably, blizzardy, desirably, ladybirds. | |
+3 letters: blizzardly, botryoidal, creditably, debonairly, durability, formidably. | |
+4 letters: adorability, adverbially, bipyramidal, drapability, drivability, irradicably, predictably, readability, roadability, undesirably. | |
+5 letters: admirability, bigheartedly, considerably, deliberately, desirability, determinably, dicarboxylic, disagreeably, dishonorably, disreputably, drapeability, drillability, drinkability, driveability, herbicidally, imponderably, ineradicably, irredeemably, irremediably, radiobiology, subsidiarily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 79 69 72 62 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. -.--. .. .-. -... .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01111001 01101001 01110010 01100010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D y i r b a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0079 0069 0072 0062 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38917584686778 |
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