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    Ya, Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Kala Lagaw Ya ([kala(u) laɡau ja]), or the Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below) is the language indigenous...
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    Badu Island (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    Badu or Badu Island (/ˈbɑːduː/; Kala Lagaw Ya: Badhu, pronounced [bad̪u]; also Mulgrave Island), is an island in the Torres Strait 60 kilometres (37 mi)...
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    Saibai Island (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    GPX (secondary coordinates) Saibai Island, commonly called Saibai (Kala Lagaw Ya: Saybay, Saibai, Saibe), is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago...
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  • Grammatical number (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    nouns of Kalaw Lagaw Ya: ùmay - "dog(s)" (one or two) ùmayl - "dogs" (plural, three or more) The pronouns and verbs of Kalaw Lagaw Ya distinguish singular...
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    Possession Island (Queensland) (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    Possession Island (Kalaw Lagaw Ya: Bedanug or Bedhan Lag) is a small island in the Torres Strait Islands group off the coast of far northern Queensland...
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    with its unrelated Western Torres Strait neighbour Kala Lagaw Ya, which is an Australian language. The shared words cover a wide range of semantic domains...
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    Creole. Kala Lagaw Ya is the traditional language owned by the Western and Central islands of the Torres Strait. The Kala Lagaw Ya language region includes...
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    central islands is Kalaw Lagaw Ya, belonging to the Pama–Nyungan languages of the Australian mainland. The other indigenous language spoken mainly in the...
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  • Islander language, addressing the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Kala Lagaw Ya. Josie Farrer was the first politician to use an Indigenous language in the...
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  • Voiced alveolar fricative (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    European languages, but is relatively uncommon cross-linguistically compared to the voiceless variant. Only about 28% of the world's languages contain...
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    the central and western islands, it is known as dhoeri, in the Kala Lagaw Ya language of those islands. The dhari is today a potent symbol for Torres...
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    exception is Kala Lagaw Ya, which acquired both fricatives and a voicing contrast in them and in its plosives from contact with Papuan languages. Several...
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    Western-Central-TI-Papuan (in words from English, Kala Lagaw Ya, Agöb, Gidra, Malay and other languages). Vowel length for the language as a whole is non-contrastive, though...
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  • IATA airport code KKY Kalau Kawau Ya (KKY), one of the western and central Torres Strait languages, see Kala Lagaw Ya Ka Kwe Ye, government defence militia...
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  • Mua people (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    peoples of Torres Strait. They speak a dialect of Kalaw Lagaw Ya of the Pama-Nyungan language family. According to the Mua, fire was brought to the island...
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    "islander", and Kaiwaligau Ya (Kauraraigau Ya) means "islanders' language". Kaiwaligau Ya is one of the four dialects of Kala Lagaw Ya, spoken throughout Torres...
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    are two main Indigenous language groups, Kalaw Lagaw Ya and Meriam Mir. Torres Strait Creole is also widely spoken as a language of trade and commerce....
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  • island. The language traditionally spoken by the Badu people and their Mabuiag neighbours is Kala Lagaw Ya, a member of the Pama-Nyungan language family....
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  • is a Torres Strait Islander artist, linguist, and activist of the Kala Lagaw Ya people, from Badu Island, in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). His work...
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  • Western-Central Torres Strait Language (Kalaw Lagaw Ya), from which it borrowed quite a few vocabulary items. Going by the records of the language recorded in MacGillivray...
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    living there. Kala Lagaw Ya (more correctly Kalaw Lagaw Ya (KLY) and Gœmulgaw Ya) is one of the languages of the Torres Strait. Kalaw Lagaw Ya is the traditional...
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    clans. The language of the Kaurareg is Kala Lagaw Ya, in the form of Kaiwalgau Ya (called Kauraraigau Ya [colloquial variant Kauraregau Ya] in the 19th...
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    There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling...
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    wulangindu kanyilu-kala kila-kala nyikunya-baba. nyiku-baba. (woman) (man) nya-buyi nya-ardu kiwa-wingka waykaliya wulangindu kanyilu-kala nyikunya-baba....
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  • became Christian over the 1870s. The language of the island is Gœmulgaw Ya, alt. Mabuygilgaw Ya, a dialect of Kala Lagaw Ya. The society consists of two moieties...
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  • Battalion during World War II. The production was staged in three languages; Kala Lagaw Ya, Yumplatok and English. Bani stated in an interview about the production...
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  • 2009 advertisement replaces the entire first verse with one sung in Kala Lagaw Ya, a dialect of the Torres Strait Islands. This version was performed...
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    elections conducted under the Local Government Act 1993. The language of Kubin is Kala Lagaw Ya (Muwalgau/Italgau and Kaiwalgau sub-dialects), while that...
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  • Mingginda or Minkin is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language, perhaps a language isolate, of northern Australia. It was spoken by the Mingin people...
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    Kaurareg (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
    October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016. "Language information: Kala Lagaw Ya". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. AIATSIS. 26 June 2012. Retrieved...
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