- Kuuk
Thaayorre (Thayore) is a
Paman language spoken in the
settlement Pormpuraaw on the
western part of the Cape York Peninsula,
Queensland in Australia...
- The
Thaayorre, or Kuuk Thaayore, are an
Australian people living on the
southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula,
Queensland in Australia, primarily...
- two-S hit-RECP+PST
Those two were
fighting As with
Guugu Yimithirr, Kuuk
Thaayorre, a
Paman language, has some
ambiguity between reflexive and reciprocal...
- act as a
generic noun on its own. In the
following example from Kuuk
Thaayorre, the
specific borrowed noun tin.meat 'tinned meat' is
preceded by its...
-
people speaking English or even Kuuk
Thaayorre as many
speakers of Yir-Yoront
apparently are
using Kuuk
Thaayorre in
daily conversation. At
present it...
- Wik-Me'nh, Wik-Ngathan, Kugu Nganhcara,
Guugu Yalandji,
Guugu Yimithirr, Kuuk
Thaayorre and a
multitude of
Australian Aboriginal sign languages. Some of these...
- space. For instance, many
Australian Aboriginal Nations, such as the Kuuk
Thaayorre,
exclusively use cardinal-direction
terms – north, south, east and west...
-
Pormpuraaw was an
Anglican mission established in 1938. The
people included Thaayorre, Wik,
Pakanh and Yir Yoront. This was the
third mission to be set up in...
-
Australian Aboriginal languages like
Guugu Yimithirr,
Kayardild and Kuuk
Thaayorre have no
words denoting the
egocentric directions; instead,
speakers exclusively...
-
tendencies rather than true universals.
Several languages like
Tidore and Kuuk
Thaayorre lack a
general term
meaning 'body'. On the
basis of such data it has been...
