Indigenous Languages
Word of the week: Eu-Gun
06/11/2015
Our word of the week is Eu-Gun
According to ‘The Warkon tribal dialects - L.R. Schwennesen. Vocabulary of aboriginal dialects of Queensland, by Harriott Barlow’, no date Eu-gun means “rain”
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