Yuul (food)
Native grains
guli (native millet, river grass) Panicum decompositum
Can be used in slices and flatbreads. The dictionary has this report from the 19th century:
Mitchell wrote the following while he travelled along the Narran: ‘panicum . . . a grass whereof the seed (‘Cooly’) is made by the natives into a kind of paste or bread. Dry heaps of this grass that had been pulled espressly [sic] for the purpose of gathering the seed, lay along our path for many miles. I counted nine miles along the river, in which we rode through this grass only, reaching to our saddle-girths, and the same grass seemed to grow back from the river, at least as far as the eye could reach through a very open forest. I had never seen such rich natural pasturage in any other part of New South Wales. Still it supplied the bread of the natives; and these children of the soil were doing everything in their power to assist me, whose wheels would probably bring the white man’s cattle into it.’
Download the pdf here: guli-QR.pdf
Posters
Yuulngin (hungry) literally means yuul (food) and -ngin (wanting), in GR (Gamilaraay) YR (Yuwaalaraay) and YY (Yuwaaliyaay).
Download the pdf here: yuulngin.pdf
Listen to the sound file here: yuulngin_hungry_Fred-Reece.mp3
Yuularaay GR Yuuliyaay YR YY (full of food, satisfied) means yuul (food) and -araay (GR) -iyaay (YR YY) (having).
Download the pdf file here:
yuularaay.pdf
yuuliyaay.pdf
Listen to the sound files here (please note this speaker passed away in 2022):
yuularaay_Karen-Jane-Flick.mp3
yuuliyaay_Karen-Jane-Flick.mp3
Download the pdf file here: dha-li.pdf
Listen to the sound files here:
dha-li_Fred-Reece.mp3
Garriya-dha-la_-Fred-Reece.mp3
Biyan (fruit)
Sound files are From the online dictionary: Gaman Guladha Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay.
Please note that some of these speakers have passed away.
fruit/s: biyan.mp3
orange:
bambul.mp3
melon: bilum.mp3
banana: bundul.mp3
apple: guri.mp3
plum: ngamumbirra.mp3
berry: yawurr.mp3
pear: biyarr.mp3
