Karri-borlbme Kun-wok

yirridjdja

yirridjdja

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English Translation
(Kun-balandaken)
moiety name
Pronunciation
(Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?)

Two things to look out for here, the 'rr' sound which is a tap of the tongue up on the ridge behind the top teeth and the double 'dj' sound which is called a long stop. For the long stop the tongue is pressed up against the palate, stopped for a while and then released, Yirridj-dja. Listen to the audio.

Morphology
(Karri-wokdjobdjobke)

Notes
(Njalenjale)

Usage
(Bale kabirri-yime?)

Yirridjdja rowk nanu wanjh Kumarrirnbang-beh ka-re bolk kunengkunu bolk-Barrbinj ka-djale kanjdji ka-bolkbuyika kure na-buyika Marrirn.

It's all yirridjdja moiety country from here at Kumarrirnbang to that Barrbinj country there and it goes right downstream to another Marrirn clan estate.

An-bedje anbu duwa ka-bardbakme werrk, wanjh mardadubbawali ka-bardbakme, anbu yirridjdja.
The duwa moiety sorghum grass [an-bedje] falls down first and then the yirridjdja spear grass [mardadubba] falls down afterwards.

Date
(Balekeno)
28 Jan 2017