The named features of the coastal environment are key to understanding the cultural landscape in which Nyungar live.
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Click on the sound files in the right hand column of the table hear the Nyungar words.
1. Lyon, R. M. ‘A Glance at the Manners, and Language of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Western Australia; With a Short Vocabulary’, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, 20 April 1833, 63-64.