848 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
SOUNDS. 
A set of marked vowels, by Tuckfield, shows @ with one long 
and one short sound, as in fiir and fat*; e, as in mé and end; 2, 
as in bit ; and 0, as in nd, not, and méve ; w, as in bill, and as in 
tub; tir, gnan ; pédong, dilbel ; kar-i-gnal ; bi, kol, lok ; bi-ad, 
kumbe. 
The sounds of the dialects were, for the most part, pleasing to 
the ear. 
A nasal sound, common to the Australian, is represented by 
the letters gn. It is produced by placing the organs of speech in 
the position required to pronounce g hard. The sound is then 
emitted through the nose, like the letter n. This sound gave the 
Europeans much trouble. 
Gn changes to k in neighbouring dialects, and the initial cor- 
responds with & in different sections of the same tribe :—Gnenong 
(Wod.), kenong (Kol.), foot ; gnurdong (Wod.), knardon (Wit.), 
mother ; gnarn (Kol.), karl (Dant.), dog ; gnundet (Kol.), kuddet 
(Dant.), tribe or language; gnun-ye, kuren-ye, small. 
The foliowing list of words in Wod-dow-ro and Witowrof will 
help to show the mutability of speech among two sections of the 
same tribe, establishing at the same time their identity :— 
Natural Objects. 
Wod-dow-ro. Witowyro. English, 
Da Dar Karth 
Gnubet Moabet Water 
La Lar Stone 
Tot-ba-ram Toort-baram Stars 
Mondar Mundar Rain 
Mondar Mundar Thunder 
Morgal Moorkalyn Night 
Mere Mirriyu Day (or Sun ?) 
Weng Wing Fire 
Wor-a-wor Woorer-woorer - Sky 
Animals and Birds. 
Karwer Kowe Emu 
Koim Goim Kangaroo 
Karl Garl Dog 
Wollard Wollert Opossum 
Parts of the Body. 
Genong-etukt Tinnan Foot 
Gnern-der Nar-een-gan dan yook Beard 
Karem Karreem nook Thigh 
* Tuckfield’s form of the numeral two, bul-laid, shows @ as in fate. 
+ Eyre’s Journals of Discovery, vol. ti, p. 401-2. 
t Etuk is sutfixed to all Wod-dow-ro names of parts of the body. 
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