jalya
Martuthunira
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- no good, useless, rubbish
- 1994, Algy Paterson, Alan Dench (tr.), Catching a Goanna, in Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia
- Ngayu jirli mir.ta wii panyu, puni-rra yawarrunyja-l.yarra murla-ngara-a tharnta-ngara-a, jalya-npa-rra, puni-rra nhuwa-l.yarra waruulwa-l.yarra.
If my arm is not good, I'll keep missing all the game, euroes, I'll be useless, I'll keep on being unable to spear them.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1994, Algy Paterson, Alan Dench (tr.), Catching a Goanna, in Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia
- bereaved, bereft, grieving
- 1994, Algy Paterson, Alan Dench (tr.), Mourning Chant, in Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia
- Yimpala-rru-wa puni-layi ngayu jalya-rru, jurti marryara-ngu withawitha-ma-lalha-rru.
That's how I come to be grieving, I've lost my younger brother.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1994, Algy Paterson, Alan Dench (tr.), Mourning Chant, in Martuthunira: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia