tjarangkankutransitive verbsee someone or something, look at someone or somethinga word from the special yi̲r̲r̲k̲a̲pi̲r̲i̲ speech used by relatives of a boy who is about to become a manTjiinyakurlu wati ngurra tiwanguru pitja nyinama. Nyangka pitjaku-ya watjalku, ‘Nyuntukunku yukari pitjangu. Tjii nyinarra.’ Nyangkakurlu minymalu watjala, ‘Mapitja watjala. Nyangka pitja-rni tjarangkarra ngurrparrinytjalu.’You know how a man might come from a distant place. Then they’ll come and say, ‘Your nephew has come and is sitting over there.’ But the woman might say, ‘Go and tell him and let him come and see me since he’s forgotten me.’Tjarangkanku: yirrkapirilu palunyapirinypa wangkama.The relatives of the boy who’s ready to become a man talk like that (use that word).Means the same asnyaku

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