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Say: kuurr-uum-bit nyuun-mer pii-yahl

Vowels: Standard - 'u' as in 'put', 'i' as in 'sit', 'a' as in 'path' or 'car'. Variation - 'e' followed by 'l' or 'r' is 'e' as in 'fern'.

Shows the normal Wamba Wamba way of describing something. Sentence starts with the description 'kurrumbit' (big) then the pronoun 'nyunmer' (those) and ends with the noun 'piyal'. (This is different to the usual English order - pronoun, noun, description (those trees are big). Notice that the 'piyal' doesn't need an ending to show that it is plural (trees) because 'nyunmer' already shows that.

How would you say or write - 'Those kangaroo are big.' 'Those Murray Cod are small.' 'These bahdi grubs are very big.'