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Waymamba talking about Balanda and Yolŋu maths
| Ma’ ŋarrany yäku nhawi Waymamba, ga mak ŋarra Yurrwipuy dhuwal, mak yuw, yaka ŋarra marŋgi. Maths dhuwal nhakun in Yolŋuwalnydja nhawiŋur romŋur, ŋorra napurruŋgal ga. Bili napurru ŋuli gan ŋuli bäki ŋunhidhiyi maths mala, Yolŋuwalnydja gali’ŋur. | Okay, my name is Waymamba, and maybe I’m from Milingimbi, maybe, I don’t know. (Joking she has lived in Darwin a long time.) Maths is in our Yolŋu law, it is lying in there for us. Because we always had our own mathematics on the Yolŋu side. |
| Manymak ŋunhi napurr dhu balandawalnydja mathslil gärri napurr dhu ga ŋunhili dhu marŋgithirr, napurru dilkurru, djamarrkuli, ŋunhidhin napurr dhu malŋ’maram differencenha. | Okay, so when we enter into balanda maths, and learn in there, we older people or children, that’s where we will find a difference. |
| Bili ŋunhi walalaŋgaldja balandawalnydja, idea-y ŋayi ga ŋunhi dividing ŋayi ga world into numbers, balandawalnydja, ga bala ŋayi dhu ŋunhi djamarrkuli wo dilkurruwurruy yakan ga dharaŋan nhaltjan ŋayi ga djäma ŋuruŋi nhakun mathstja ŋunhi walalaŋgal romŋur balandawaldja. | Because the balanda idea, (maths) is dividing the world into numbers, on the balanda side, and so those kids or older people can’t recognise how it is working, that maths which is inside Balanda culture… |
| 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 |
| bala napurru dhu rrambaŋikuman djäman, marŋgi-gurrupana djamarrkuli, marŋgithirr dhu ga djamarrkuli coursekurr mala wo wäŋaŋur wo wanhami walal dhu marŋgithirr, liŋgun. | And then we will work them both together, and teach the kids, the kids will learn in courses, or at home or wherever they will learn, that’s my view. |