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Words for Category: Communicating

communication
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Human
Family People Body Health Feelings Food
Actions
Moving Making Hunting Fighting Changing Bodily
Animals
Mammals Reptiles Birds Aquatic Insects Spiders
Art and Objects
Artmaking Audio Ceremony Objects Tools Weapons
Communication
Communicating Belief Counting Time Location Describing
Country
Plants Land Water Sky Fire Places

kalaya

to ask, to question

kanerra

to allow, to permit

kungaya

to keep quiet

kurtəma

to growl, to complain

mamba

perhaps

mapa

to lie, to tell lies

nyarringin

name (yours), your name

nyuma

to recognise, to know

tyalingin

tongue (yours), also language, speech

wantima

to want

weka

to laugh

wekuwa

to laugh loudly, to make a cackling sound like a possum

*wembakən

never

winyarr

who?

wurreka

to speak

wurrenga

to call someone to wake up

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