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forms nue and na. Pale, the dual form^ occurs in the 

 Western Australian, the New South Wales, the South 

 Australian, and the Parnkalla as foUoAVS : hooia, hulo-ara, 

 ptirl-a, pudlanhi=they two. 



2. 



Smgular ngi-du^tliou, thee. 



Dual vgi-pel=^ye two, you two. 



Plui'al ngi-tana^^ye, yov. 



Here the root is limited to the syllable ngi, as shewn not 

 less by the forms ngi-pel, and vgi-tana, than by the simple 

 Gudang ngi=^tliov. 



Ngi, expressive of the second person, is common in 

 Australia: ngi-nnee, ngi-ntoa, ni-nna, ngi-7ite=ihou, thee, 

 in the W. Australian, N. S. Wales, Parnkalla, and En- 

 counter Bay dialects. 



Ngi-pel is probably thou+pair ; a priori this is a likely 

 way of forming a dual. As to the reasons a posteriori 

 they are not to be drawn wholly from the Kowrarega 

 tongue itself. Here the word for two is not pel but quassur. 

 But let us look further. The root p-l, or a modification of 

 \i,^=two in the following dialects; as well as in the Parn- 

 kalla and others : pnr-laitye, poolette, par-kooloo, bull-a, 

 in the Adelaide, Boraipar, Yak-kumban, and Murrumbidge. 

 That it may stand too for the dual personal pronoun is 

 shewn in the first of these tongues ; since in the Adelaide 

 language purla^=ye two. Finally, its appearance amongst 

 the pronouns, and its absence amongst the numerals, 

 occui's in the Western Australian. The numeral two is 

 hardura ; but the dual pronoun is boala. The same pheno- 

 menon would occur in the present English if two circum- 

 stances had taken place, Adz., if the Anglo-Saxon dual wi-t 

 =106 two had been retained up to the present time amongst 

 the pronouns, and the word pair, brace, or couple, had 

 superseded two amongst the numerals. 



