Martuthunira

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Etymology

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Possibly related to Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngarnka "beard".

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ngarnngarn

  1. chin

References

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  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.