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Dhaŋgal talking about Yolŋu maths in Yolŋu life
| Yän ŋaya ŋarru guŋga’yuwan in a way nhalpiyan ŋalma dhaŋu warkthun, liŋgu ŋanapu ŋätjil warkthunda dhaŋu warray so I’ve got a bit of an idea, | I might have a suggestion as to how we should go about this, because we’ve worked on this question before so I’ve got a bit of an idea, |
| banha warkthuwan, banha ŋanapu warkthun, nhä mala ŋamaŋamayuwan yolŋu’yulŋuyu, warkthuna ga, there’s maths in it, doesn’t matter how, forget about the ŋäpaki side, ŋalma ŋarru concentrate ŋalmamuru banha Yolŋumurru, | so working, when we are at work, what things we Yolŋu make and do, there’s maths in it, doesn’t matter how, we should forget for now about the balanda side, we should concentrate on our own, the Yolngu side, |
| Manikaymurru, yän example, manikay, yutuŋgurr banha manikay, banha mala talking about distance, yän dhaŋu mathsnha Englishma happenma ŋoya ŋarru, there has to be some in Englishmurru banhayaya, | Through our ancestral songs, just an example, in the central part of the songs, it is talking about distance, that’s what it’s called in English maths, it’s in there (in the manikay), there must be some English way to recognise that, |
| Unless napurr dhu baladhi bili roŋiyirr napurruŋgal djalkirilil, ga romlil napurruŋgal yolŋuwal, ga ŋunhili ŋathil marŋgithirr, ga yorrnha manapan beŋurnydja bala märram, balandawalnydja mathsŋur, | Unless we go back to our foundations, and to our Yolŋu law, and start by learning there, and later add the other from over there, from the balanda mathematics |
| miny’tjiŋa ŋalmaliŋgura, gapuyu dhan rakaram, gurrutuy banha rakaram maths banha warrpam’ bitjan ŋaya nhäma, ŋalmaliŋgura dhaŋum djalkiri banha dhawatthuwana bitjana. | in our sacred art, the (sacred) waters tell us, our kinship system tells it all, that’s how I see it, our identities coming out through them. |