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Wakka IV

Field notes Nyingarn Project

The Nyingarn Team are pleased to add another manuscript to DigiVol this week. This manuscript is made available with permission of the relevant language group so that the text can be used by them and by others for appropriate purposes. Please do not distribute or use any of the material in this manuscript except to transcribe it. The work will be distributed using a Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution licence.

Notebooks were written by Swedish linguist, Nils M. Holmer.

Phonology, morphology and vocabulary of languages of the Wakka and Gunggarri groups - Wakka-Wakka, Barunggam, Wuli-Wuli, Goreng-Goreng, Goeng-Goeng, Kabi-Kabi, Batjala, Gunggari, Bidjara, Marganj, Gangulu, Wirri, Birri, Ngawun, Nunagal, Manandjali, Jualrai, Kamilaroi and Darumbal.

This notebook is written in multiple Queensland Indigenous languages. Further community work is needed to identify them; your transcription effort is critical to this process.

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