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forms 7iue aucl net. Pale, the dual form, occurs in the 

 Western Australian, the New South Wales, the South 

 Australian, and the Parnkalla as follows : boola, hulo-ara, 

 purl-a, pudlanbi=^they two. 



2, 



Singular ngi-dii=^thou, thee. 



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



Plural ngi-tana^ye, you. 



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: ngl-nnee, ngi-ntoa, ni-nna, ngi-nte=thou, 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 du.al. 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 

 ii,=two in the following dialects ; as well as in the Parn- 

 kalla and others : pur-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, 

 occurs in the Western Australian. The numeral two is 

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

 menon would occur in the present English if two circum- 

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

 =ioe 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 superseded two amongst the numerals. 



