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naatj

NOONGAR

what?

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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

nail : what? (Grey 1839:?)
Nait; Yan. : What (Moore 1842: 168)
n-aggio? (Nasal N) : why? (Salvado 1851: 262)
Na-aj? : What is it? (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 43)
Naaj : What (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 40)
Naatch : What (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 31)
naaj : what (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Naaitch : What is it? (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 46)
Naitch, naaj : What (Kajaman; Bates XII 2B, 11: 37)
na-, nal, natj : what.? (interrogative substitute for nouns ) (Douglas 1968: 101)
naa : what? (Von Brandenstein 1988: 25)
nadjak : why? what for? (Douglas 1991: 34)
naatj, nadja, nayidja, : where? (Whitehurst 1992: 52)
Na it? : What? (Richards 1994: 128)
Naalj? : what?, which? (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)