tjaa pataly(pa)fromtjaa1dumbTjaa patalypa purtu wangkama. Maralukutju yurrirra watjanma. Kutjupatjarra palunyapirinypa pilyirrpa ngarripayi.A person who’s dumb can’t talk. He just talks by moving his hands. Some people are born like that.2inarticulate, can’t talk properlyTjilku ngaanya tjaa patalypa wangkarra yirliltutjanu.This child is not talking properly because he ate honey ants.3not given to swearing or growling at peopleTjaa patalypa warrkirranytjamunu.
T̲ja̲a̲ pa̲t̲a̲l̲ypa̲ means the person doesn’t swear.Tjaa-rnatju patalypa nyinarra.I’m not going to respond by swearing.Ngarna tjiinya purtingka tjunarntjunu. Yititjunku -- tjaa patalypanyka nyinama, payiranytjamaalpa nyinama.It was only when they lived in the bush that they put babies in the smoke. They’d hold them near it -- so that the child wouldn’t swear and wouldn’t be a person who growls a lot.Means the same astjaa wawany(pa)
T̲ja̲a̲ pa̲t̲a̲l̲ypa̲ means the person doesn’t swear.Tjaa-rnatju patalypa nyinarra.I’m not going to respond by swearing.Ngarna tjiinya purtingka tjunarntjunu. Yititjunku -- tjaa patalypanyka nyinama, payiranytjamaalpa nyinama.It was only when they lived in the bush that they put babies in the smoke. They’d hold them near it -- so that the child wouldn’t swear and wouldn’t be a person who growls a lot.Means the same astjaa wawany(pa)
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