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Recorded by Maïa Ponsonnet on 26th May 2011 in Bodeidei Camp near the spring, with Maggie Tukumba, speaking in Dalabon. MP asks MT to tell about her interation with her ex, who she used to work with in a tourist camp near Weemol - where the session takes place.

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bah

maybe you can tell about how I came here

kardu djah-yinmiyan ngaye-boninj nidjarrah kuno

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kaye---

when he used to go

kaye-boninji

well he

kenh kah---

yeah you two staid here and then he used to go away

wow narrah-ninj nidjarra kardu kaye-boninji

he would go there

kah-boninji nahda

to Katherine, he would pick up the tourists

Katherine-kah duridj bulkah-? warne?-be-yunginj

and come back (to you) at night

kenbo mah munano djah-marnu-dudj-m-inji

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wirrimahkih

or he would stay there

wirrimahkih kahnidjah kah-ninj

and then you just staid there

nunh kanh mah djah-dja-yo nidjarra

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you looked after this place here

dah---dah---dah-nahnaninj kanh nidjarra

Bordeyhdeyrh, the camp

Bodeyrhdeyrh wadda

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you always looked after by yourself and would stay and wake by yourself

dah-dja-nahnaninji njing-walung-kun djah-kodj---djah-kodj-djabdinj

but him, he used to go there and maybe

yibung-karn kah-boninji nahda mah kardu

one night or maybe

kangH wanjing wirrimah kardu

two nights he staid there

kangH burrkunh nahda kah-yo

in Katherine, waiting for these people that is

Katherine bulkah-rok-yidjnaninj mah wirrih

the tourists

duridj

and he would come back

kenbo mah kah-lng-dudjminji

then

nunh

he started picking quarrel on you

djah-lng-marnu-yirru-ngandunginj

and he became irritated

kah-lng-woh-kangu-yirru-ngalminji

he started arguying with you, getting mad at you all the time, I don't know what happened to him.

djah-woh-dunginji kardu keninjh bukah-men-nguninj

yeah

yow

maybe he was becoming

kardu kah-djawoh

he started hating you, having negative feelings for you

kah-djawoh-kangu-dinjirrminji

this is how you started fighting

kanh-kun narra-woh-durruninji

yeah

yow

but I don't know what he was really thinking

bah kardu marruh kah-yolh-yinHyininj

maybe he secretly

kardu molkkun

maybe there was another women, the secret reason why he developped bad feelings for you

kardu kinikun kirdikird-kun kardu molkkun kah-woh-kangu-dinjirrminji

and that's why you two were fighting

wanjh kanh narrah-durruninji

?or maybe? he had his mind set on another woman there

kohmah kah-men-ninj nukah kirdikird

?so that he can go with her?

kinikun bulu kuku-mang

that's what he was thinking in his head

kanh kah-men-yinHyininj kardu kodj-no

in his mind

men-no

you went on like that maybeeee

narrah-dja-yininj kardu:

and them you broke up

narrah-lng-baworrinj

oh well, he went first that way, and there

kenh ?wow? nahdah malung kah-bong nahdah

to this, he went westward [to France]

kardu walangkard kah-bong

he came back to you, you were fighting

djah-marnu-dudjminj narrah-durrinj

you kept arguying

narrah-dja-durrinj

when he came back he told me

kah-?lng?-dudjminj kah-yinmiwong

he told me

kah-yinmiwong

we are arguing, we no longer get on

yarrah-durruninj

well, YOU told me

kenh njing kah-yinmiwong

me and him are fighting, you said to me

yarrah-durruninj djah-yininj

this Balang

kanh Balang

he's cheeky with me

kah-dunginj

he's bad with me, he hates me I don't what for

kah-marnu-kangu-dinjirrminj kardu keninj-kun

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you said, you told me

kah---djah-yininj kah-yinmiwong

yeah, I said

yow ngah-yininj

well, I don't know why

wowh kardu keninjh-kun

I don't know why he's cheeky with me

kardu keninjh-kun kah-dunginj

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you said

kah---djah-yininj

I'll have to leave him soon then, I'm going to leave him, you said

derrhno-bo ngah-lng--ngah-lng--- ngah-lng-boniyan nunh ngah-lng-bawoyan djah-yininj

oh really is it true?

bulba kah-dja-kirriburk

are you going to leave him?

dah-lng-bawong

you left him then?

djah-lng-komhminj

he staid behind all by himself

yibung-karn wangirrih kah-dja-ni-nginj

he's still there

kah-dja-ni wangirdih

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but since he didn't find a wife, he just stays there, no wife

bah mak kirdikird ka-ngalka kahke kah-dja-nini kirdikird-dih

and the tourists still come

nunh mah duridj balah-bon kahnunh

when new tourists come

kinikinikun duridj bale-bon

he doesn't sleep with them

nunh mak bulkaye-ni

he just goes on by himself, he takes the tourists around

nunh yibung-karn kah-djah-worhbon duridj bulu kah-kan

yeah this is, yeah...

yow kanh yow

but today it's OK

bad dubmidubmi kah-mon

I come back and stay here

ngah-dja-dudjmu ngah-nini nidjarra

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but now [false start]

bah nahda walu--

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from far away you come and visit him

nahdah balaybbalay-walung dah-dja-marnu-dudjmu

you come back to him

dah-mar-dudjmu

umh

kenh

yes you, you come back to him

woh dah-marnu-dudjmu njing-yih

you come back to him

dah-marnu-dudjmu

for language

yang-kun

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you come back to him

dah-marnu-dudjmu

to work on my language ?in fact?, and us two talk together

yang-kun bahdih njeh-karn mah djeh-yenjyenjdjung

?it's different?

kinikah

but you do come back and see him

bah mah dah-dja-marnu-dudjmu

and he no longer hates you

mak mah dja-marnu-kangu-dinjirrmu

he does not speak badly to you

mak dja-dung kahke

he feels

kah-dja-marnu-kangu---

he's kind with you

djah-marnu-kangu-yowyowmu

yeah his feelings for you--

yow djah-lng-marnu-kangu---

he feels for you now

wurdahmu nekenda

he doesn't argue with you

mak dja-dung

maybe he thinks to himself well

kardu men-no kah-yin ngale