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    Ya, Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Kala Lagaw Ya ([kala(u) laɡau ja]), or the Western Torres Strait language (also several other names, see below) is the language indigenous...
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    Badu Island (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    Badu or Badu Island (/ˈbɑːduː/; Kala Lagaw Ya: Badhu, pronounced [bad̪u]; also Mulgrave Island), is an island in the Torres Strait 60 kilometres (37 mi)...
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  • Grammatical number (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    nouns of Kalaw Lagaw Ya: ùmay - "dog(s)" (one or two) ùmayl - "dogs" (plural, three or more) The pronouns and verbs of Kalaw Lagaw Ya distinguish singular...
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    Saibai Island (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    GPX (secondary coordinates) Saibai Island, commonly called Saibai (Kala Lagaw Ya: Saybay, Saibai, Saibe), is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago...
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    Creole. Kala Lagaw Ya is the traditional language owned by the Western and Central islands of the Torres Strait. The Kala Lagaw Ya language region includes...
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    Possession Island (Queensland) (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    Possession Island (Kalaw Lagaw Ya: Bedanug or Bedhan Lag) is a small island in the Torres Strait Islands group off the coast of far northern Queensland...
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    with its unrelated Western Torres Strait neighbour Kala Lagaw Ya, which is an Australian language. The shared words cover a wide range of semantic domains...
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  • Voiced alveolar fricative (category Articles containing Kala Lagaw Ya-language text)
    European languages, but is relatively uncommon cross-linguistically compared to the voiceless variant. Only about 28% of the world's languages contain...
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  • Islander language, addressing the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Kala Lagaw Ya. Josie Farrer was the first politician to use an Indigenous language in the...
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    the central and western islands, it is known as dhoeri, in the Kala Lagaw Ya language of those islands. The dhari is today a potent symbol for Torres...
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