Family Kinship Terms

 

• Boy = maralya

• Girl = gardni

• Boys or man  = mirari

• Brother, Younger  = ngaidyaba

• Brothers in law , Brothers having one life  = bardabarda 

• Brother in law = moondyanda

• Child, Infant  = gaidya

• Coast people, Coast Tribe  = wambiri bidni yoorari

• Concubine = googoonoordoo

• Confidant, Friend = ngalira

• Daughter  = ngabirdi

• Family  = boodlanbi moori

• Father = babi

• Father and son  = babirünya

• Father bereft of his child  = wariyi

• Fatherless orphan, a person bereft of his father  = boogala

• Husband  = yardli

• Wife = gardidi, yoongara

• Infant, Child  = gaidya

• Mother = ngamaidyoo, ngami

• Mother, A woman having born children  = ngoodlali

• Name for a female relative, Grandchild/Grandmother  = gadyini

• Name for a relative  = gagamida, ganyi, bina mara,windya

• Name for a relative, Adoptive son = booyooloo

• Name for a relative, Mother-in-law  = yoomari

• Orphan  = ibirinya, ngamiri

• Nephew, Relative = mani

• Sister  = yaga

• Take a wife, Marry  = gardidi nalada

• 2 brothers, a pair of brothers  = ngamirünya

• Uncle  = Ngamana

• Unmarried, Bachelor, Spinster = wira

• We two (brothers)  = ngadli

• We two (husband and wife) = ngarinya

• Widow  = maroorgoo

• Widower  = yambina

 

Whyalla, South Australia, Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann with several participants in one of his Barngarla Aboriginal language reclamation workshops, 17 July 2012