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This site hosts materials to support learning of the Bininj Kunwok language of Kakadu and West Arnhem, Australia. We focus on Kunwinjku, the main dialect, spoken in Gunbalanya.



Learning

 * Podcasts
 * Phrases
 * Nouns
 * Noun-Verb Constructions
 * Pairs of Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
 * How to learn
 * Resources

Reference

 * Pronunciation
 * Skin Names
 * Kinship Diagram
 * Incorporable Nouns
 * Pronominal Prefixes
 * Table of Verbs
 * Irregular Verbs
 * Verb Conjugations
 * Verbal Constructions

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Credits

 * The head image is from a painting by Gavin Namarnyilk.


 * Map from Garde, M. 2014. 'Doing things with toponyms: The pragmatics of placenames in Western Arnhem Land' in Clark, I.D., Hercus, L. and Kostanski, L., Indigenous and Minority Placenames: Australian and International Perspectives. ANU Press.