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Publication details [#37668]

Schmidt, Annette. 1985. Young people's Dyirbal: An example of language death from Australia. (Cambridge studies in linguistics). Cambridge University Press. xviii + 252 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
language death | youth
Language as a subject
Dyirbal
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This analysis of the speech of young Dyirbal speakers shows that this Australian Aboriginal language is dying out and getting replaced by English.

Reviewed by

Bavin, Edith L. 1988. Review of $Young people's Dyirbal: An example of language death from Australia.