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GURRE KAMILAROI.
GURRE KAMILAROI.
(Extracts from a Missionary Primer, prepared for the Kamilaroi-speaking People.)
Baiame gīr giwīr gimobi; mal giwir
Adam. Baiame goë: Kamil murruba
giwīr ƞāndil ƞuddelago ƞaia giwīrgo
īnar gimbille." Ila Baiame inar gimobi;
mal inar Iva; Iva gūlįr Adamu.
Adam buba murriƞu, buba wondaƞu,
buba kānuƞo ; Iva ƞumba murriƞu, ƞumba
wundaƞu, ƞumba kānuƞo.
Adam Iva ellibu warawara yanani,
Kanuƞo giwir kanuƞo inar warawara
yanani; kanuƞo kagil ginyi. Baiame yili
ginyi, goë, "Kanuƞo giwir kanuƞo inar
warawara yanani, kanuƞo kagil ginyi; ƞaia
ƞarma bālū būmāle." Immanuel, Wūrume
Baiameƞu, goë, "Kāmil! Kāmil ƞinda
ƞarma bumala, ƞinda ƞunna būmala, ƞaia
balugi, giwir inār moron gigigo."
Murrubā Immanuel; kamil ƞaragedūl
murruba yealokwai ƞērma.
Ilambo Immanuel taongo taiyanani,
giwir ginyi.
Giwīr kair Layāru. Ƞeryu bular boādi,
māri, māta. Layaru wibil ginyi bular
boādi gurre wāala immanuelgo, goaldendai,
“ Ƞai daiadi, ƞinnu layaru, wibil."
[Verbatim translation.]
God verily man made; first man Adam.
God said, " Not it is good for man alone
to dwell; I for man woman will make."
Then God woman made; first woman
Eve; Eve wife of Adam.
Adam father of black fellow,–father of
whitefellow,–father of all. Eve mother
of blackfellow, mother of whitefellow,–
mother of all.
Adam, Eve also astray went. All men,
all women astray went; all bad became.
God angry became, said, "All men, all
women astray went, all bad became; I
them dead will strike." Immanuel, son
of God, said, "No! not thou them smite;
thou me smite; I l die, men, women
alive to be."
Good is Immanuel; not another is
good like Him.
Long ago Immanuel to earth came,
man he became.
A man named Lazarus. Belonging to
him two sisters, Mary, Martha. Lazarus
sick became. The two sisters word sent
to Immanuel, saying, "My brother, Thy
Lazarus is sick."