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English Translation (Kun-balandaken)	1. person, human being 2. Aboriginal person 3. man
Pronunciation (Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)	bi-niny IPA= biniɲ
Morphology (Karri-wokdjobdjobke)
Notes (Njalenjale)
Usage (Bale kabirri-yime?)	1. Kunj kabirri-ngun dja ngad bininj minj ngarri-ngun kan-djenbun. Kangaroos can eat it, but people don't eat it because it is foul tasting. 2. Ngad Bininj ngarri-kukbulerri dja ngudda Balanda ngurri-kukbele. We Aboriginal people have dark skin and you non-Aboriginal people have light skin. 3. Konda dalukwern, daluk boken, bininj nakka, nuye na-bininjkobeng berrewoneng. Here is group of women (in a painting), they are his wives, he is the husband of the two women.
Date (Balekeno)	08 Apr 2012

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Karri-borlbme Kun-wok 'learning language' is an email list to which you can subscribe and regularly receive a word in Bininj Kunwok (Kunwinjku, Kundjeyhmi and other dialects). If you are interested in learning something about Bininj Kunwok, this is a great way to expand your vocabulary and knowledge about the language. For Bininj who already know how to speak the language, this is also a good way to learn how to spell words. Some grammatical information about the word is given and an illustrative sentence is often also included. Emails will be about once a week. Karri-borlbme Kun-wok is a resource of the Bininj Kunwok Language Project.

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