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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Twank a toot : Deaf (Nind 1831: 49)
Touank atout : Deaf (Sourd) (Dumont D’Urville 1834: 5)
tongaburapo : to forget (Salvado 1851: 265)
dwonger bult : I don’t know (Barlee (Curr) 1886: 357)
dwongaburt : I don’t know (Hackett (Curr) 1886: 345)
Dwonga burt : Unintelligible (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 39)
Dwonga burt : Deaf (Monnop, Ballarruk; Bates XII 2B, 24: 17)
dwongabărt : silly, “no ears” (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Dwonga burt : Dense, stupid (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 23)
Dwonga werra butting : Silly (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 37)
Dwong burt : Silly (Kajaman; Bates XII 2B, 11: 33)
dougerbut : unknown (Bussell 1930: 66)
twaŋk puṭ, twaŋkapuṭ : deaf, ignorant (Douglas 1968: 87)
Dwankabut : deaf (Davis 1969: 5)
tuaanq-a-tuut : deaf (Von Brandenstein 1988: 102)
dwongkaburt : deaf, unreasonable (Douglas 1991: 19)
dwankaboort : deaf (ear without) (Whitehurst 1992: 33)
dhwongka-bart : deaf (SW) (Dench 1994: 188)
Dwongaboort : deaf (Mippy (Rooney) 2002: 325)