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Yawuru Language: Kinship Terms
bibi mother, mother's sister
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kuku father, father's brother
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yirlmada auntie (father's sister)
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kaka uncle (mother's brother)
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babala elder brother, cousin of the same skin
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marrkardu younger brother
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ngunu sister (elder or younger)
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yaku husband, sister's husband, husband's brother
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kabali wife, brother's wife, wife's sister
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ingalbu wife's brother
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darlu mother-in-law (wife's mother, husband's mother)
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rambarr father-in-law (wife's father, husband's father)
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rangan daughter-in-law (son's wife)
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wuba son/daughter, brother/sister's children
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jalangka nephew/niece (usually cousin's children)
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jalwal cousin
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mimi grannie, (mother's mother, daughter's daughter)
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kamirda father's father
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jamuny father's mother, mother's father
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jalbi mother's mother's mother
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  Skin (Section) Names
karimba = barr'jarri
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barr'jarri  
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banaka = burugnu
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burugnu  
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  This list was compiled by K. Hosokawa with the help of Mrs Thelma Saddler of Broome in 1986.