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OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



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Genitive : This case is formed by adding ku to the nominative, as : 

 meru partuku, the womera of the man, or a man's womera ; wonna 

 kunkaku, a woman's yamstick. 



Adjectives. 

 Adjectives follow the nouns which they qualify and are subject to 

 the same inflexions. Comparison is effected by means of two posi- 

 tive statements, such as : this is good — that is bad. In the declen- 

 sions of all the cases of nouns, and of their qualifying adjectives, 

 there are modifications in the affixes, depending upon the termina- 

 tion of the word declined. Sometimes the affix of the noun is 

 omitted, sometimes that of the adjective, this matter being regulated 

 by the euphony of the sentence. 



Pronouns. 

 Pronouns are inflected for number, person and case, and contain 

 two forms of the first person in the dual and plural, marked " inclu- 

 sive " and '' exclusive " respectively in the following tables. The 

 nominative pronouns are given in full. 



Singular 



Dual 



Plural 



1st Person 

 2d Person 

 3d Person 



1st Person 



2d Person 

 3d Person 



1st Person 



2d Person 

 3d Person 



I 



Thou 



He 



We, inclusive 



We, exclusive 



You 



They 

 r We, inclusive 

 1 We, exclusive 



You 



They 



The possessive pronouns are as under 



Singular 



Dual 



Plural 



{1st Person 

 2d Person 

 3d Person 



{1st Person 

 2d Person 

 3d Person 



! 1st Person 



2d Person 

 3d Person 



1 



Mine 



Thine 



His 

 f Ours, inclusive 

 \ Ours, exclusive 



Yours 



Theirs 



Ours, inclusive 



Ours, exclusive 



Yours 



Theirs 



Ngaiulu 



Nuntu 



Paluru 



Nuntungali 



Ngali 



Numbali 



Palumkutara 



Ng-untunganana 



Nganana 



Ngurangari 



Tana 



Ngaiuku 



Nuntuba 



Palumba 



Nuntungalimba 



Ngalimba 



Numbalimba 



Palumbakutara 



Nuntunganamba 



Nganamba _ 



Ngurangarimba 



Tanamba 



I am not yet in receipt of sufficiently definite information to fur- 

 nish details of the remaining parts of the Loritya grammar, but the 

 subject \N\\\ receive further attention in the near future. 



