Traditional

- guldu appears to be the verb stem. If this is correct, word endings would be added directly onto the stem: guldu-ra.- see community grammar book The fragments of Budderers waddy for details of how to use Nharangga verbs.

other words are also recorded with the meaning one. In Old Nharangga, these may have been simply alternative words with the same meaning. The Nharangga Language Workshop has now decided to use guma as the usual word for one.

This species was only found in rock country, not on the southern coast.- gunda may or may not be the same as gandu.- Egginton/Tindale firstly listed this wallaby as crescent-marked, then later changed it to the scientific name above.

gundaraga trees grow near Munda Moonta.

- unlike most descriptive words or adjectives in Nharangga, this word comes after the noun that it describes (such as gadli gidja).- this word is shared with related languages as well.

also used recently in a positive sense of having pride in oneself, or ones people, etc.

the skin probably comes from a joey.- SA Museum has a Dama wallaby skin rug made by Louisa Egginton. It is featured in the famous portrait of Ivaritji.- It has an it inner surface a regular pattern of crossed lines formed by rubbing the folded skin with a broken piece of quartzite hammerstone. The skins were pegged out and dried in the sun, and stitched together with kangaroo (sinew) after trimming to a regular shape. (Egginton/Johnson/Tindale)

- the word as shared with related languages indicates that it has possible extended meanings as well.- for example, the meaning one could be extended to little, few; the meaning Another could be extended to the rest.

see spelling and pronunciation for notes of rrd.the pronunciation and spelling chosed above are based on the literal meaning given by Tindale Emu Place.