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Tyurung-Wil
Emu
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Notes:
the long one'; this is an instance of the use of a nickname which presumably replaced an older word for 'emu' in Wembawemba. The use of nicknames helps to account for the particularly great diversity in the words for birds in Victorian and other Australian languages
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Birds, Animals
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