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

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