1907] 



MATHEWS— LANGUAGE OF THE BIRDHAWAL TRIBE. 



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Verbs, 



Language of the Kurnai Tribe. 



In a monograph published in 1902^ I submitted an elementary 

 grammar of the Gunggaladhang, the language spoken by the Kurnai 

 tribe, whose country is situated to the west of and adjoining that 

 of the Birdhawal. In the paper referred to, the examples given in 

 the pronouns and verbs were very much abridged, owing to exigen- 

 cies of space, and therefore I am now desirous of supplementing 

 what was then published, being the result of further investigations 

 made by myself among the natives. If this additional information 

 be read in conjunction with my memoir of five years ago, and the 

 vocabulary of 300 words which accompanied it, the whole will then 

 exhibit an outline of the grammar of the Giinggaladhang tongue. 



While many of the words of the Gunggaladhang are nearly 

 the same as those of the Birdhawal, there are a large number which 

 are altogether different. The closest agreement is found among 

 the pronouns and some of the verbs. 



^Joum. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, XXXVII, pp. 92-106. 



