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Gamilaraay
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yinarr
- an Aboriginal woman
1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:
1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi, or Kamilaroi Sayings:baiame goë: “kamil murruba giwīr ŋāndil ŋuddelago; ŋaia giwīrgo īnar gimbille.”
God said, “Not good man alone for to dwell; I for man woman will make.”- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1873, William Ridley, Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
- Woman | īnar
1903, R. H. Mathews, “Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:
References
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)