yalada

/ˈjalada/

gloss “alright”

Speech · communication

alrightokaywelcomehello

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Kuku-Yalanji Dictionary (1982)

The headword and meaning trace to the Kuku-Yalanji dictionary compiled by Henry and Ruth Hershberger with major Kuku Yalanji contributors.

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Major contributors include Toby Bloomfield, Roy Friday, Billy Roberts, Hector and Doris Sykes, Joe Walker, and people who lived at Jajikal in Ayton.

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Patz section 4.10 records that's all right, that's settled then and notes that it typically concludes a conversation.
Contemporary Kuku Yalanji community and public-institution sources also use Yalada as a greeting translated welcome or hello; preserve this as a pragmatic extension rather than replacing the older discourse sense.