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where

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
[Waw Collbee yagoono]
English JS Main: 
where
English: 
[Let for example the following question be put Ñ Waw Collbee yagoono? Ñ Where is Colbee to-day? Ñ Waw, baw! Ñ Where, indeed! would be the reply. ]
Category: 
interrogative: place
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
293
Line: 
23.11
Respelt: 
wå
Part of speech: 
interrogative
Date: 
1793
Source Details: 
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History

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