We saw in an earlier blog post that there are two ways in Diyari to say “This is me” — if you are female then you would say nhaniya nganhi and if you are male you would say nhawuya nganhi. This is because nhaniya means ‘this (female)’ and nhawuya means ‘this (not female)’.
When it comes to saying “This is us” then there are four ways to say this in Diyari. If there are just two people then we say:
pulaya ngaldra ‘These two are you and me’ (including the person you are talking to)
pulaya ngali ‘These two are someone else and me’ (excluding the person you are talking to)
If there are three or more people then we say:
thanaya ngayana ‘These three or more are you and us’ (including the person you are talking to)
thanaya ngayani ‘These three or more are someone else and me’ (excluding the person you are talking to)
For more information about pulaya and thanaya look at this blog post.
Ngayana Diyari Yawarra Yathayilha 