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the words used, and its simplicity is well exemplified in the 
examples given at the foot of each page in the vocabulary 
annexed. : 
The Larraki‘a verb is often in some moods and tenses rendered 
by the same form, as “‘ mogwiri,” you two go, or may we two go, 
or will we two go. Thus “ ngigari mogwiri,” where the variation 
except for euphony is only in the pronominal prefixes ‘‘ngi-” and 
‘““mo-,” meant “you go on (ngigari), we two will come after 
(mogwiri) ;” “ bagbirra mogwiri banmogwinma” was a question in 
which one of two boys asked whether they might carry my bag ; 
‘“‘brédema mogwiri baimitum,” spoken to their fellows at another 
time, explained that the speaker and another lad were on the 
way to buy bread. The indicative future-simple and the perfect 
are rendered : as “ neggellipmerk,” you will return, “ neggellip- 
menerk,” you have returned. The imperative, “give me,” is 
“‘an-ngok,” and “ I am about to have given to me” is “‘annagok ;” 
as, ‘erribédkwa anngok,” give me a light, “‘tobakkwa annagok,” 
he is going to give me tobacco presently ; “nagok,” I give to 
you, “ minnannagok,” he will give to you and me. “Ngigiddjyi” 
tells one to arise; “neggogiddjyi” enquires whether you are 
getting up or asserts the fact. 
Thus, “dallipmenérk dallipbing” indicates in da- the third 
person plural, -alip- is the root, -me- the perfect tense, -merk the 
direction towards and not from; while -bing in the second word 
denotes the continuance of their absence, the meaning being, 
“They have come back and cleared out ”’—broken up camp, gone 
away not to return. So in “ dallipbing dalaji,” they have cleared 
out and gone away. While, as in “ngigdri” in the example 
given above, “ go” is “-gari,” “ gone” is represented by -lajz, and 
for “been gone” dra is prefixed ; as “‘bilaji,” he is gone, “ bara- 
bildji,” he has been gone. As “-merzk” indicates the direction 
towards, so -wm signifies ‘‘ from ”—“‘ nogélderk,” for instance, run 
to me, “ndgoldum,” run from me. 
In nouns I find no variation in declension for number, person, 
or case. 
The Larraki‘a personal and possessive pronouns are— 
Separable. Inseparable. Separable. 
Anannga an-, I, me anagi, mine 
amille* — I myself anang-emilla, belongs to me 
it‘uma ngi- or ne-, you it‘ennagi, yours [myself 
yaba bi-, he, she, it, him, her bidnnagi, his, &c. 
bimilla — himself, &c. 
dorendbirra — we, us dorennagi, ours 
moanmil/la mo-, youand I, heand I modannage, belongs to us two 
biddendbira do- or da-, they, these biddennagi, them 
* -muella (German ii) is a term of emphasis, as ‘‘ patj‘i,” he is good ; ‘‘ patch‘imilla,”-he 
is good fellow, 7.e., very good. 
