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'''Dhuwal''' (also '''Dual''', '''Duala''') is one of the [[Yolŋu languages]] spoken by [[Aboriginal Australians]] in the [[Northern Territory]], Australia. Although all Yolŋu languages are [[mutual intelligibility|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 the [[Northern Territory Legislative Assembly]] [[Yingiya Mark Guyula|Yingiya Guyula]] gave a speech in his native tongue.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-07-01 |title=Yingiya Mark Guyula makes history, addressing NT Parliament in language |website=National Indigenous Times |url=https://nit.com.au/yingiya-mark-guyula-makes-history-addressing-nt-parliament-in-language/ |access-date=2023-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701133216/https://nit.com.au/yingiya-mark-guyula-makes-history-addressing-nt-parliament-in-language/ |archive-date=1 July 2022 }}</ref>
==Dialects==
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Vowel length is contrastive in first syllable only.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Heath |first=Jeffrey |title=Dhuwal (Arnhem Land) texts on kinship and other subjects, with grammatical sketch and dictionary |year=1980 |
==Orthography==
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| {{Lang|pjt|pa'''ṉ'''a}}
| 'earth, dirt, ground; land'
| diacritic (underline) indicates the [[retroflex nasal]] ([ɳ])
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| {{Lang|wbv|'''nh'''a'''nh'''a}}
| 'this, this one'
| digraph indicating the [[Dental, alveolar and postalveolar nasals|dental nasal]] ([n̪])
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| {{Lang|mis|yol'''ŋ'''u}}<!-- Yolŋu languages -->
| 'person, man'
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