Gulumoerrgin is the Indigenous language for Darwin and the surrounding regions of Cox Peninsula and Gunn Point in the Northern Territory.
Members of the language group, Lorraine Williams, Judith Williams, Maureen Ogden, Keith Risk and Anne Risk, led the development of the Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia) seasonal calendar. 1
Gulumoerrgin seasons
The Gulumoerrgin seasonal year is divided into seven main seasons:
- Balnba (rainy season; Balnba gulugi bigarrk - big rain coming) Audio description | Transcript
- Dalay (monsoon season) Audio description | Transcript
- Mayilema (speargrass, Magpie goose egg and knock ‘em down season) Audio description | Transcript
- Damibila (Barramundi and bush fruit time) Audio description | Transcript
- Dinidjanggama (heavy dew time) Audio description | Transcript
- Gurrulwa guligi Season of ‘big wind’ - July, August, September Audio description | Transcript
- Dalirrgang Build up time - September, October Audio description | Transcript
Learning Larrakia
Words used in the Gulumoerrgin Seasons calendar:
- Banimadla: Long necked turtle, Chelodina oblonga | Audio description
- Betbiyanba: Flatback turtle, Natator depressus
- Bilirrawarra: Red-tailed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii | Audio description
- Birrdibirripba: Dragonflies | Audio description
- Biyarmarrma: Pandanus, Pandanus spiralis | Audio description
- Biyinba: Eggs of Gakkingga, magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata | Audio description
- Boewitjba: Bush potato, Brachystelma glabriflorum | Audio description
- Dadbinggwa: Sugar bag (native bee honey) | Audio description
- Dala: Mangrove worm | Audio description
- Dambilinggwa: Waterlilies | Audio description
- Damiyumba: Billy goat plum | Audio description
- Damaldanggala: Dugong, Dugong dugon | Audio description
- Damugula: Mud mussels | Audio description
- Danggalaba: Saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus | Audio description
- Dangoerra: Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae
- Dangutjbela: Kangaroos | Audio description
- Danijarra: Long bums, Telescopium telescopium | Audio description
- Dapdapma: Dugout canoe | Audio description
- Dawirrba: Thunder and lightning
- Deleynggwa: Ironwood or Turkey bush | Audio description
- Delirra: Sun
- Denela: Hand woven string bags | Audio description
- Doedlirra: Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas | Audio description
- Doerriya: Moon
- Dundil: Bush peanut, Sterculia quadrifida | Audio description
- Gakkingga: (Alternate name: Banimoerra) Magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata | Audio description
- Galanggwa: Bloodwood, Corymbia terminalis | Audio description
- Gama: Sand
- Gilinggilingba: Flying fox, Pteropus alecto | Audio description
- Gulida: Round yam, Dioscorea bulbifera
- Gulppula: Green tree frog, Litoria caerulea
- Guyuggwa: Fire – campfire or bushfire
- Gwilirrimba: Sand palm, Livistona humilis | Audio description
- Malagujinba: Sharks | Audio description
- Malarramamba: Pandanus mats made from Pandanus spiralis | Audio description
- Mamilba: Land animals (generic)
- Maminyjuma: Woollybutt, Eucalyptus miniata | Audio description
- Manalema: Stars
- Manigurrma: Stringybark tree, Eucalyptus tetradonta | Audio description
- Manmanma: Cyclones | Audio description
- Mariyarroenggwa: Long yam, Dioscorea transversa
- Matboerrma: Plants, woodland, savanna
- Mayoema: Bush tucker plants: food, plant food
- Milula: Agile wallaby, Notamacropus agilis | Audio description
- Mindilima: Big red apple, Syzygium suborbiculare | Audio description
- Mindimilma: Pink wild apple, Syzygium eucalyptoides sp. Bleeseri | Audio description
- Minimidla: Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus | Audio description
- Moedoelma: Mangrove forest | Audio description
- Moerrma: Small black plum, Vitex glabrata | Audio description
- Ngaydiboerra: Sea turtle eggs
- Ngamamba: Nuts from the cycad plant, Cycas armstrongii | Audio description
- Wilwil: Grewia asiatica
Other plants referred to in the Gulumoerrgin Seasons calendar:
- Bush currant: Antidesma ghaesemebila
- Yellow kapok: Cochlospermum fraseri | Audio description
- Cocky apple: Planchonia careya | Audio description
- Red kurrajong: Brachychiton megaphyllus
Gulumoerrgin seasons calendar
Citation
- Lorraine Williams, Judith Williams, Maureen Ogden, Keith Risk, Anne Risk and Emma Woodward (CSIRO). 2012. Gulumoerrgin Seasons (calendar): Larrakia, Darwin - Northern Territory, Australia. CSIRO (Land and Water).
Gulumoerrgin is the Indigenous language for Darwin and the surrounding regions of Cox Peninsula and Gunn Point in the Northern Territory.
Members of the language group, Lorraine Williams, Judith Williams, Maureen Ogden, Keith Risk and Anne Risk, led the development of the Gulumoerrgin (Larrakia) seasonal calendar. 1
Gulumoerrgin seasons
The Gulumoerrgin seasonal year is divided into seven main seasons:
- Balnba (rainy season; Balnba gulugi bigarrk - big rain coming) Audio description MP3 (473 KB) | Transcript
- Dalay (monsoon season) Audio description MP3 (585 KB) | Transcript
- Mayilema (speargrass, Magpie goose egg and knock ‘em down season) Audio description MP3 (543 KB) | Transcript
- Damibila (Barramundi and bush fruit time) Audio description MP3 (305 KB) | Transcript
- Dinidjanggama (heavy dew time) Audio description MP3 (454 KB) | Transcript
- Gurrulwa guligi Season of ‘big wind’ - July, August, September Audio description MP3 (501 KB) | Transcript
- Dalirrgang Build up time - September, October Audio description MP3 (505 KB) | Transcript
Learning Larrakia
Words used in the Gulumoerrgin Seasons calendar:
- Banimadla: Long necked turtle, Chelodina oblonga | Audio description MP3 (64 KB)
- Betbiyanba: Flatback turtle, Natator depressus
- Bilirrawarra: Red-tailed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii | Audio description MP3 (69 KB)
- Birrdibirripba: Dragonflies | Audio description MP3 (74 KB)
- Biyarmarrma: Pandanus, Pandanus spiralis | Audio description MP3 (59 KB)
- Biyinba: Eggs of Gakkingga, magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata | Audio description MP3 (55 KB)
- Boewitjba: Bush potato, Brachystelma glabriflorum | Audio description MP3 (71 KB)
- Dadbinggwa: Sugar bag (native bee honey) | Audio description MP3 (62 KB)
- Dala: Mangrove worm | Audio description MP3 (55 KB)
- Dambilinggwa: Waterlilies | Audio description MP3 (61 KB)
- Damiyumba: Billy goat plum | Audio description MP3 (67 KB)
- Damaldanggala: Dugong, Dugong dugon | Audio description MP3 (66 KB)
- Damugula: Mud mussels | Audio description MP3 (63 KB)
- Danggalaba: Saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus | Audio description MP3 (53 KB)
- Dangoerra: Emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae
- Dangutjbela: Kangaroos | Audio description MP3 (75 KB)
- Danijarra: Long bums, Telescopium telescopium | Audio description MP3 (57 KB)
- Dapdapma: Dugout canoe | Audio description MP3 (59 KB)
- Dawirrba: Thunder and lightning
- Deleynggwa: Ironwood or Turkey bush | Audio description MP3 (63 KB)
- Delirra: Sun
- Denela: Hand woven string bags | Audio description MP3 (57 KB)
- Doedlirra: Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas | Audio description MP3 (68 KB)
- Doerriya: Moon
- Dundil: Bush peanut, Sterculia quadrifida | Audio description MP3 (66 KB)
- Gakkingga: (Alternate name: Banimoerra) Magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata | Audio description MP3 (82 KB)
- Galanggwa: Bloodwood, Corymbia terminalis | Audio description MP3 (60 KB)
- Gama: Sand
- Gilinggilingba: Flying fox, Pteropus alecto | Audio description MP3 (81 KB)
- Gulida: Round yam, Dioscorea bulbifera
- Gulppula: Green tree frog, Litoria caerulea
- Guyuggwa: Fire – campfire or bushfire
- Gwilirrimba: Sand palm, Livistona humilis | Audio description MP3 (64 KB)
- Malagujinba: Sharks | Audio description MP3 (69 KB)
- Malarramamba: Pandanus mats made from Pandanus spiralis | Audio description MP3 (70 KB)
- Mamilba: Land animals (generic)
- Maminyjuma: Woollybutt, Eucalyptus miniata | Audio description MP3 (62 KB)
- Manalema: Stars
- Manigurrma: Stringybark tree, Eucalyptus tetradonta | Audio description MP3 (73 KB)
- Manmanma: Cyclones | Audio description MP3 (58 KB)
- Mariyarroenggwa: Long yam, Dioscorea transversa
- Matboerrma: Plants, woodland, savanna
- Mayoema: Bush tucker plants: food, plant food
- Milula: Agile wallaby, Notamacropus agilis | Audio description MP3 (63 KB)
- Mindilima: Big red apple, Syzygium suborbiculare | Audio description MP3 (57 KB)
- Mindimilma: Pink wild apple, Syzygium eucalyptoides sp. Bleeseri | Audio description MP3 (62 KB)
- Minimidla: Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus | Audio description MP3 (57 KB)
- Moedoelma: Mangrove forest | Audio description MP3 (58 KB)
- Moerrma: Small black plum, Vitex glabrata | Audio description MP3 (67 KB)
- Ngaydiboerra: Sea turtle eggs
- Ngamamba: Nuts from the cycad plant, Cycas armstrongii | Audio description MP3 (67 KB)
- Wilwil: Grewia asiatica
Other plants referred to in the Gulumoerrgin Seasons calendar:
- Bush currant: Antidesma ghaesemebila
- Yellow kapok: Cochlospermum fraseri | Audio description MP3 (66 KB)
- Cocky apple: Planchonia careya | Audio description MP3 (55 KB)
- Red kurrajong: Brachychiton megaphyllus
Gulumoerrgin seasons calendar