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English Translation (Kun-balandaken) |
young man/men |
Pronunciation (Bale ka-yime karri-ngeybun?) |
jawʊrɪɲ (listen to the audio file at:
Here are the individual sounds y-a-w-u-rr-i-nj. The only two sounds difficult for anglophones are the tapped 'r' sound and the final palatal nasal sound at the end, a bit like 'ny'. To make this sound finish the word by having your tongue flat up against the top of your mouth. |
Morphology (Karri-wokdjobdjobke) |
The first syllable is yaw 'child', the rest is not meaningful on its own. |
Notes (Njalenjale) |
This word can be either singular or plural. However, to really stress plurality, 'lots of young men', you can reduplicate the word to get yawuhyawurrinj (where the 'h' is a glottal stop)— YA-wuh-YA-wurrinj. |
Usage (Bale kabirri-yime?) |
You can address a group of young men by this term: Yawurrinj, baleh ngurri-re?
Yawurrinj ma!
You can also use the stative past verb -ni on the end to do things like this: Bu nga-yawurrinjni, nga-djangkani.
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Date (Balekeno) |
11 Sep 2015 |