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Title:
Wamba Wamba Bound Forms - Plain English - long with examples (pdf - 9 pages)
Summary:
Longer version of Wamba Wamba Bound Forms / Word Ending listing with plain English explanations and examples of usage.
Author:
Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre
Format/type:
Document, Text
Length:
7 Pages
About:
Language teaching and learning - content - Bound Forms
Age Suitability Guide:
Language Workers, Teachers, Community, Yr10-12, Yr7-9
Content:
Pronunciation Guide, English Text, Wamba Wamba Text
Learning Focus:
Publisher:
Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre © 28 Apr 2022
Doc ID:
14
External link:
Additional notes:
Adapted and expanded from Dr. Luise A. Hercus's 'WembaWemba Dictionary' pps 72-74.
Suggestions (Teacher's Notes):
One of learning and teaching bound forms is to work down through the examples. For example, the first Noun Ending '(k)a' example 'larrpinyanda katəna' shows adding 'a' (towards) to water (katən). So this leads to adding 'a' to a range of nouns eg fire, the tree, Grandfather, a grey kangaroo. The verb could be changed to 'walk' (yangga) to give 'yangginyanda Ngapaka' (I will walk towards Grandfather.).