3-534: Dhuwal (also Dual , Duala ) is one of the Yolŋu languages spoken by Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory , Australia. Although all Yolŋu languages are mutually intelligible to some extent, Dhuwal represents a distinct dialect continuum of eight separate varieties. In 2019, Djambarrpuyŋu became the first Indigenous language to be spoken in an Australian parliament, when Yolŋu man and member of
6-595: Is contrastive in first syllable only. Probably every Australian language with speakers remaining has had an orthography developed for it, in each case in the Latin script . Sounds not found in English are usually represented by digraphs , or more rarely by diacritics , such as underlines, or extra symbols, sometimes borrowed from the International Phonetic Alphabet . Some examples are shown in
9-576: The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Yingiya Guyula gave a speech in his native tongue. According to linguist Robert M. W. Dixon , Ethnologue divides Dhuwal into four languages, plus Dayi and the contact variety Dhuwaya (numbers are from the 2006 census.): Dhuwaya is a stigmatised contact variant used by the younger generation in informal contexts, and is the form taught in schools, having replaced Gumatj ca. 1990. Vowel length
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