There are 3,880 example sentences in Reuther’s Diyari dictionary — — he includes them to illustrate the use of particular words and expressions. We have extracted all these examples and created a web page which lists them. Here are some sample entries in the examples supplement:
The structure of the entries is as follows:
- Reference number: for each example we give its location in the Dictionary by referencing the entry number, sub-entry number, and example number, in the format Reuther_entry23-sub2-ex3. This refers to the third example under the second sub-entry of entry 23. Readers can use this information to go back to the main Dictionary (Specialist Edition) to see the example in its context.
- Diyari sentence (in green) in the mission spelling
- English translation (in brown)
Here is the example mentioned in (1) above:
This appears within the entry: butju ‘blind, unseeing’:
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