20100723_001_MT

Recorded by Maïa Ponsonnet, with video handled by Mathieu Rabusseau, on the morning of 23dr of July 2010, in Larrambi-no near Weemol, with Maggie Tukumba. Initial transcript (tx@) by Maïa Ponsonnet, April 2011.

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nunh Larrembe-no

This is Larrambi-no.

nunda Larrambi-no

This is Larrambi-no, as we call it, this water is flowing that way there.

nunda nunh kanunh Larrambi-no yalah-yin nahdabera kanh wah kah-kolh-bon kanunh

From Komdjilin-no,

Komdjilin-no-walung

?that we passed today,

kanh dumbi ngurrah-yurrHang

that's where I showed you the sign today,

kanh dubmi norr ngah-buyhwong sainbod

that is Komdjilin-no there.

kahnidjdjah nunh Komdjilin-no

The water come from there, to here, moving down, it flows here.

kahnidjabeh wah kah-kolh-bon nahdjarrada berru-yirrh kah-kolh-yowmu nahdah

From Komdjilin-no water hole maybe?

nunh Komdjilin-no bo-no kardu

You see there, the water is flowing.

kanh dah-nan kanh wah kah-kolh-yow

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laikijad

This one is from Komdjilin-no.

nunh kanh Komdjilin-no-walung

Mmm...

mmm

Yeah, Komdjilin's water goes there.

yow Komdjilin-bo-no kanhdah kah-bon

There is a snake there.

manjh kanidjah kah-yu

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yow

Where does this water go then?

marruh mah kah-bon nunh wah kenbo

?A big female one that holds us there,

ngal-badjan kahnidjah njel kah-yidjnjan

and gives us water.

bah kanh wah njel kah-kolh-ngabbun

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yow

This water goes ooon, there to Mount Catt.

nunda wah kah-dja-bon nahda menked

That where it reaches.

kah-burlhmu

This water there now, it comes up to Mount Catt,

nunda kanda wah menked kah-burlhmu

it keeps going there

kah-dja-bon nahdah

But it doesn't go to Mobarn.

bah kahke Mobarn mak ka-bobon Mobarn

to Bawurryih.

Bawurryih

This water there,

nunda wah kahnunh

over here.

nidjarraberda

Mobarn is on its own,

Mobarn nunh yibung-karn

it has its own water that was made there.

wah-no-kih kanidjah kah-dja-kolh-mardanginj

There is a dreaming (totem) there.

kahnidjah djarng kah-yu

The Northern nailtailed wallaby

ngorlomorro

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Mobarn-kah

it's dreaming lays there.

kahnidjah kah-yu drimin

The wularla, the ancestral wallaby.

wularla

Yeah, in Mobarn, that's where it is, on its own.

yow Mobarn kanidjah kah-dja-yu yibung-karn

Its own place.

wadda-djarng-kih

This one is on its own,

nunda yibung-karn nunh

Oh yeah this is a sacred site.

oh yeah kurnh-wirridjih

this creature/snake gives us water, this one from Komdjilin-no.

manjh njel kah-kolh-ngabbun kahnunh nahbeng Komdjilin-no

The dadbarrangkurl.

dadbarrangkurl

Yeah! This is addbarrangkurl.

wow dadbarrangkurl kahnunh

The king brown. The big snake.

dadbu manjh boyenjboyenj

From there, it gives us water,

kahnidjabe wah njel kah-kolh-ngabbun

but here it keeps flowing, it goes down there.

bah nadjarrerda kah-dja-kolh-yowmu nahdah kah-bon yirrh

Down there and it comes out to Mount Catt.

yirrh kah-burlhmu nahda menked

How do you say Mount Catt in Dalabon?

marrûh mah djah-yih Mount Catt Dalabon-walung

Yeah.

yow

Or [part of] it goes to Barrabbonda.

wirrimah kah-bon nahda Barrabbonda

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menked oh

It splits.

kah-kolh-lakkarrun

Oh I didn't know.

oh mak nga-bengkey

I though Mount Catt was in English.

ngah-men-yininj menked Inglish-walung

Menked.

menked

Menked yeah.

menked yow

But no.

bah kahke

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kahnidjah men--

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Shall we go over there?

kardu nidjarra ngarrah-bon

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We say Menked here.

menked kanidjah balah-yin

Look this one whatyucallit it's flowering.

dah-nan kahnunh keninjhbi kah-kobun

This one it really has a lot of flowers look over there.

kanh ko-no-ke dah-nan nukahbay kanh

There this one is flowering,...

djung kanh kah-kobun kanunh

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damud ko-no

damurd flowers.

damurd ko-no

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ola purple one

These damurd flowers are flowering over there.

damurd ko-no kanhda nunh kah-kobun

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Like flowers from the billabong?

laik kardu bo-no-kun ko-no

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These flowers that you see, kobokobo

ko-no kanh dah-nan kobokobo

Yeah, kobokobo

yow kobokobo

The flowers, kobokobo, that water lilies flowers.

ko-no kobokkobo birlbarrh kanh ko-no

Or that one kobokobo we also say, that

wirrimah nunh kanh kobokobo yalah-lng-yin dat

The flowers here, you see the pindanus too...

kanh ko-no nidjarra kobo-no nunh dayarr dah-nan mahkih

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These are dayarr, pindanus, whatyucallit.

nunda dayarr keninjhbi

This is not really pindanus.

nunda mak ka-kakku-dayarr

This one, before,

nunda korrehkunh

The Nakorrkkoh.

Nakorrkkoh

The Nakorrkkoh put here these...

nakorrkkoh burrah-yunj nunda

Men, these are men.

biyi biyi nunda

These are not pindanus, but men.

nunda mak ka-dayarr bah biyi

These, whatsit, they put these here.

kininjhbih bulah-yunj nunda

?The mardadubba people.

Mardardubba

Was Mardarddubba their clan name?

mardardubba daworro-bulng

They put it here these ones.

dijan na kanhdah bulah-yunj kahnunh

These are men, these, this bunch standing here,

biyi nunda dj-- kanh kah-- kah-njon-di