Ginnagay, thats what we say around here on the Coffs Coast Gumbaynggirr people... but my friend Marianne from the Headland in WA says Kaya' so Ginnagay and Kaya and Palya to my NT friends also and Jingi Wala to my Bunjalung friends and all out west of me Yama to you out there near Moree and surrounding Gomeroi lands. Hello to everyone.
YURRUUN.GA
Long white sands - Lingo Gumbaynggiiri
URUNGA
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Looking towards the Ocean from town in Urunga
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August 2012 was a special month because it has two FULL MOONS. The first one falls on August 2nd and it is a Aquarius ♂ full moon.
The second FULL MOON is on Friday 31st August and it will be full at 11:59pm and it is a Aquarius ♂ full moon.
The second FULL MOON in any one calendar month is called a BLUE MOON because a full moon occur every 29.5 days apart.
Calculate the moonsign here..
Gumbaynggirr Language
Ginnagayy . . Hello
Yaanagay, yagay! Here you are / Here it is.
Yurruun.ga, North Beach - Place of the Long white sands
Gilayjal Miirlari Urunga -Sacred place of the High Tides
Gilayjun Sacred
Janingbirriny Valla
Baalijin Bellingen
Giinagay, Yaamadi Hello
Mirranya, gaywawa Dawn
Ngayan Sun
Gawnggan.ga Friday (from Gawnggan 'First woman').
Nungalli Mirrlarl.. Pickett Hill Valla
Maam Gadaang Meeting place of talking
Yaanagay,yagay!(Gumbaynggirr)... Here you are, Here it is!
Yurruun.ga, Gilayjal Miirlari,..... Urunga
Janingbirriny Valla
Baalijin, Bellingen
Giinagay, Yaamadi,......... Hello
Mirranya, gaywawa,... Dawn
Ngayan ,.......... Sun
Gawnggan.ga Gawnggan '1st woman Friday
Gaargums ................. Kookaburra
Translations.
Giinagay - hello.
Yaam darruy ngiina gaduyaygu - It's good to meet you.
Ngiinda darruy - Are you well?
Ngaya yaam darruy - I am fine.
Giinagay and yaarri yarraang - hello and goodbye.
Miimi - mother.
Baaba - father.
Gagu - brother.
Jiinda - sister.
Ngayan - sun; Giidany - moon.
Ngaya yaam naaraway - I am sorry.
Niirum - cold; Wiigun - hot.
Ngaya yaam niirumay - I am cold.
Guuru - black.
Garaaban - white.
Daagan - white northern.
Muluurr - red or blood.
Garlugun - one.
Bularri - two.
Guga - three (gugaamgan is emu).
Daan - four (daan.gi is talons).
Marla - five (hand).
Jugu - six.
Duwa - seven.
Janya - eight (short for octupus).
Wagaa - nine.
Ngaal - ten.
Muluny - platypus.
Nunguu - kangaroo.
Yamaarr - fish (eatable).
Jiibiny - bird.
Waanyji - dog.
Dunggiirr - koala.
Yugiirr - dolphin.
Gaagal - ocean and beach; Bindarray - river; Juluum - mountain; Waluurr - valley.
Yuraal - tucker or food; Biyamba - eat; Ngambii - drink.
Ngaya - I; Ngiinda - you; Ngiyaa - we.
Miil - eye; jalaany - mouth; maarla - hand; ngaalgan - ear; ngaari - leg; baga baga - knee.
Ngiina nyaagu gangaagirr diiragarri - see you later, alligator.
Galimbin - hat.
Miilambin - glasses.
Jagana - shoe.
Yiiliwiyay - dancing.
Wwagay - fire.
Wajaarr is land and marrall is earth.
Gaywa wunba - festival.
Maagunaygam - the feasting.
Maagun - feast.
Gilingal - new.
Jalumgal - old.
Jaaningga - Wattle
Yulun.ga - Sally Wattle
Gunayjin.ga - Fine Leaf Wattle
Niirum - Cold
Jalingarr - Morning
Jalingada Niirum - Morning cold
Daalgay - Song
Daalgiya - Sing
Daalgili - Singing - continuous singing like at a Corroboree
Ngaya yaam daalgiyay - I am singing
Minya minya - How many things?
Warru warru - How many people?
Warru - Person
Bijaarr - Name
Nganyundi Bijaarr - My Name
Nginundi Bijaarr - Your Name
Nganyundi Bijaarr Garyga - My Name is Gary
Nginundi Bijaarr Lizga - Your Name is Liz
Barrway - Large
Junuy - Small or Child
Yurruun - Long
Jarligam - Short
Jaraan - Frog
Yamaan - Creek
Yaam darruy ngiina nyaagaygu - It's nice to see you
Yaam darruy nginumbala gayigu - It's good to speak with you
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| Sacred Place of the High Tides |
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| The Maritime Flagpole on the Hill in Urunga |
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| The main street of Urunga in contrast |
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| The Ocean View Hotel Urunga's only pub |
Quotes
Resistance/Activism/Oppression/Discrimination/Racism Quotes
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Abraham J. Heschel
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun
There are at least 45 regional names for the didgeridoo and listed below are some of these:
Quotes from Famous Indigenous Australians
Dr Perkins
They [Aboriginal youth] learn and receive messages from society of low worth and expectations of mediocrity and failure. I challenge these messages and dream for young Aboriginal Australians and I encourage them to believe in themselves.
They [Aboriginal youth] learn and receive messages from society of low worth and expectations of mediocrity and failure. I challenge these messages and dream for young Aboriginal Australians and I encourage them to believe in themselves.
We stagger & stumble into each other in confusion when our identity…is contested & thus allow ourselves to be moulded by others.
"We pray eternally that the White authority structure will not turn on us and impede what little progress we have made"
"We live off the crumbs that fall off the White Australian tables and are told to be grateful."
"We ask for land rights with tongue in cheek knowing full well that the land belonged to us in the first instance"
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Australia will become a model for other global communities ... I see Australians coming together from all walks of life, especially indigenous and non-indigenous Australia, for a better tomorrow. We need to lock into one-another's point of view.
Patrick Dodson
Each of us is unique. We are different. We are all Australians and call this home. Let us rejoice in our diversity and difference because it is they that will enrich us. It is who we are and where we want to be that will ultimately give us the strength, wisdom, inspiration and the generosity to get the job done.
Kevin Gilbert
No people are willing to stand by and see their rights, their human rights usurped or eroded and not do anything.
Cathy Freeman
Peace, unity and harmony!
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
(Queensland Indigenous Languages Advisory Committee, 2006 )
Those who lose Dreaming are lost -
Australian Aboriginal proverb
We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavoured to live with the land; they seemed to live off it
Australia will become a model for other global communities ... I see Australians coming together from all walks of life, especially indigenous and non-indigenous Australia, for a better tomorrow. We need to lock into one-another's point of view.
Patrick Dodson
Each of us is unique. We are different. We are all Australians and call this home. Let us rejoice in our diversity and difference because it is they that will enrich us. It is who we are and where we want to be that will ultimately give us the strength, wisdom, inspiration and the generosity to get the job done.
Kevin Gilbert
No people are willing to stand by and see their rights, their human rights usurped or eroded and not do anything.
Cathy Freeman
Peace, unity and harmony!
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
Language is our soul.
Aunty Rose Fernando, Gamilaroi Elder, 1998
So I take this word reconciliation and I use it to reconcile people back to Mother Earth, so they can walk this land together and heal one another because she's the one that gives birth to everything we see around us, everything we need to survive.
Max Dulumunmun Harrison, Yuin Nation
Language is the expression of our culture and our land. We cannot have one without the others. We cannot describe our culture and our land if we do not have language. So I take this word reconciliation and I use it to reconcile people back to Mother Earth, so they can walk this land together and heal one another because she's the one that gives birth to everything we see around us, everything we need to survive.
Max Dulumunmun Harrison, Yuin Nation
(Queensland Indigenous Languages Advisory Committee, 2006 )
Those who lose Dreaming are lost -
Australian Aboriginal proverb
We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavoured to live with the land; they seemed to live off it
Being Aboriginal is not an obligation or a responsibility, a deficit or an advantage. It is a fact. What you do with it is up to you alone.
Good intentions can be tokenism if appropriate leadership, time and consultation are not given to supporting local Aboriginal communities.
Thinks they are the center of the Universe, doesn't share toys & wants everyone else's, fear of the 'dark', 19thC Europe or a 4 yr old?
When immigrants come here they should do as we do, by which I mean do as they choose to do: Think, pray, talk any way they choose! As we do!
Aboriginal people should be thankful [for being given Civilization]? If you are given a bat you are thankful, if you are beaten with one you are not... basic logic really!
Watching Oprah does NOT really count as opposing racism and embracing diversity!
Racism: The inexplicable habit of blaming victims of historic and continuing inequities for the consequences of victimization.
Resistance/Activism/Oppression/Discrimination/Racism Quotes
Abraham J. Heschel
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun
| Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. Angela Davis |
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate
. James Arthur Baldwin
. James Arthur Baldwin
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The didge is a mans instrument and should not be touched by woman of any creed or colour, therefor from the lore that I understand you should heed this. You should show as much credence to this as to walking on Uluru, which of course you shouldn't.
There are at least 45 regional names for the didgeridoo and listed below are some of these:
| Language Group | Region | Local Name for Didge |
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| Anindilyakwa | Groote Eylandt | ngarrriralkpwina |
| Arnhem Land | (Yidaki) Mandapul | |
| Arnhem Land | Yiraka | |
| Djinang | Arnhem Land | Yirtakki |
| Iwaidja | Cobourg Peninsula | artawirr |
| Jawoyn | Katherine | Gunbarrk |
| Gagudju | Kakadu | garnbak |
| Ngarluma | Roebourne, W.A. | Kurmur |
| Nyul Nyul | Kimberleys | ngaribi |
| Warray | Adelaide River | bambu |
| Mayali | Alligator Rivers | martba |
| Pintupi | Central Australia | paampu |
| Aranda | Alice Springs | Ilpirra |
| Aunty Alison's bush tucker talks to educate. |
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