16 ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES, ETC. 



Macquarie, and Bogan, and over all the immense tracts of land 

 westward to the line from Bathurst to Albury. In the Forbes 

 district, " widdi," in the Bathurst district, " wirrai," is the 

 negative. East of the Great Dividing Range we find dialects 

 of the same language in the Camden district, near Kiama and 

 Wollongong ; on Botany Bay the negative was "mirra," whereas 

 the Sydney blacks with whom Governor Phillip met, spoke one 

 of the Woll dialects, where the negative was " beall." Between 

 Sydney and the Hunter River, the negative is " worri," on the 

 Hunter River it has changed into " yalla," which is the same 

 word as " yaggara " in a mutilated form. 



On the Manning and Hastings rivers, the negative is 

 " kuriat," and " korang," the vocabularies belong to the Kura 

 languages ; " beung " is father, " murrai " is camp. 



On the Macleay, the negative "kara" is emphasized by 

 " kimbo," " karakimbo," or " kokimbo." 



The Koi language, west of Glen Innes, has already been 

 referred to, and it only remains to notice the Urda or Kurda,. 

 and the Kamil. 



The Kamil (Kamilaroi), is spoken in the tract of land 

 enclosed on the east by the Dividing Range, on the south by the 

 Namoi, and on the west by the Barwon. In the Karmil or 

 Kamil language the negative "kara" is emphasized by the 

 apposition " mil." " Buba " is father, " binna " is ear, "malli," 

 is camp. Very many words familiar to the Brisbane student of 

 aboriginal languages occur in the Kamil. " Marumba " (good in 

 Yaggara), means sweet in the Karmil. 



The Kurda language is spoken in the southern part of the 

 Mitchell district, and in the Warrego and Maranoa districts (in 

 Queensland). There exist some dialects, and one dialect of the 

 Yamma is interpolated between them. " Kurda " is the negative 

 " kara," emphasized by the apposition of da. Instead of 

 "kurda," we find "hurda" or " urda," and " arda " as negatives 

 in the different dialects. The vocabularies differ much from 

 those of the Kara dialects. " Yabba" is father, " munga," ear^ 

 " yamba," house. 



I am to some extent indebted to Mr. Curr's book on the 

 aboriginal languages for these comparative studies, which 

 demonstrate the indubitable fact of one and the same rootstock 

 for all the languages and dialects of Eastern Australia. 



