Problem:IOL/2013/i1/en(A)

IOL 2013 Problem #1 Yidiny

Here are some words in Yidiny and their English translations:

ɡudaːɡa dog buɲa woman waɡuːɟa man muyubara stranger ɡaɟaɡimbaːɡu for a white man bamaɡimbal without a person bamaːɡu for a person bimbiːbi another father mulariɡu for an initiated man mularini of an initiated man buɲaːm from a woman

ɡudaɡabi another dog ɡaɟaɡimbaːm from a white man biɲɟiːnɡu for a hornet bimbiːn of a father muɟam mother biɲɟiːnmu from a hornet maɟuːrbi another frog buɲaɡimbal without a woman baɟiɡalni of a tortoise ɟuduːlumuɟay with a pigeon

The mark : indicates that the preceding vowel is long.

(a) Mark the long vowels (if any):

muɡaɽumu from a fishing net waŋalɡu for a boomerang

(b) Mark the long vowels (if any) and translate into English:

baman, buɲabi, maɟurmuɟay, muɟamni.

(c) Translate into Yidiny:

of a stranger, for a fishing net, father, from a frog, without a man, of a pigeon, tortoise, without a boomerang.

⚠ The Yidiny language belongs to the Pama-Nyungan family. It is spoken by approx. 150 people in the state of Queensland, Australia. ɟ, ŋ, ɲ, ɽ are consonants.

—Bozhidar Bozhanov, Ivan Derzhanski