The Jabirr Jabirr are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia .
4-631: Jabirr Jabirr , is also written as Jabirrjabirr and with other spellings such as DjaberrDjaberr , Djaberadjabera , Dyaberdyaber and Jabba Jabba . Their language is the Jabirr Jabirr language . The Djaberadjabera held, according to Norman Tindale 's estimation, some 800 square miles (2,100 km) of tribal land on the western side of the Dampier Peninsula . From the coastal area of Sandy Point at Beagle Bay , their territory went south as far as Cape Bertholet. Their inland extension
8-728: Is a Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken by the Jabirr Jabirr people on the coast south of 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. It is also sometimes spelt Jabba Jabba . The language is closely related to Nyulnyul and probably close enough to be mutually intelligible. The source materials from Nekes and Worms' (1953) "Australian Languages" list numerous similarities. Jabirr Jabirr
12-749: Is as of 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". This Australian Aboriginal languages -related article
16-642: Was about 30 miles. Running clockwise, their neighbours were, to the north, the Nyulnyul , the Warrwa on their eastern flank, the Nimanburu southeast, and the Ngombal to their south. By 1953 only 5 members of the tribe were still known to survive, and in 1974 Tindale stated that they were virtually extinct. Jabirr Jabirr language The Jabirr Jabirr language , also known as Djabirr-Djabirr ,
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