Cultural activities

This topic looks at the words around some cultural activities. Explanations use these abbreviations for the GYY (Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay) languages:
GR - Gamilaraay
YR - Yuwaalaraay
YY - Yuwaalayaay

Wii (fire, firewood) - noun


Download pdf: Wii-(template)-QR-code.pdf
For a tinfoil craft activity to use with this template, click here. 
For the counting song "Banay birralii wii-dha" (Ten children at the fire), click here.

Download pdf: wii_fire.pdf

Sew - verb

nhingi-li: (will) sew (verb-transitive) GR, YY
muyawa-li: (will) sew (verb-transitive) YR, YY

Giirr nguru garru nhingi-lda-nha.
Giirr nguu garru muyawa-lda-nha.
She is sewing a fur cloak.  

     giirr: truly GR YR YY
     This is common at the start of GYY sentences.

     nguru: she/he with a transitive verb (GR)
     nguu: she/he with a transitive verb (YR)

These are the "doer.to" forms which are used with transitive verbs, i.e. they are doing something to the fur cloak.


     garru: fur cloak (YY)

     nhingi-lda-nha:  sew - l class continuous - now (GR, YY)
     muyawa-lda-nha: sew - l class continuous - now (YR, YY))
The future forms of both verbs ends in -li. This means they are called "l class" verbs, and the other suffixes follow "l class" patterns.
    
Our poster shows Lahni Natty sewing a possum fur cloak. You can download the pdf versions in Gamilaraay or Yuwaalaraay here: Sew_GR.pdf, Sew_YR.pdf