AUSTRALIA. 



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KAMILARAI. 



The dative of the object (answering to, 

 for icho/n ? for ictuit ?) ends in ko, except 

 for names of persons and interrogative pro- 

 nouns, which have tiny. 



The dative of motion (answering to, to or 

 toward trltoin or what ?) ends in ako or inko. 



The ablative of the cause (from, on ac- 

 count of, concerning) ends in in or kai. 



The ablative of motion (from, away from) 

 terminates in dbirtry or inlririry. 



The ablative of conjunction (with, along 

 with) ends in oa. 



The ablative of location or residence (at, 

 remaining at or with) ends in aba or inba. 



There are six declensions, according to 

 which not only nouns, but adjectives and 

 participles are declined. 



All names of persons belong to the first 

 declension. The active nominative is formed 

 from the simple, by adding to ; the genitive 

 by adding umba ; the accusative has nuy; 

 the first dative, nuy; the second, kinko; the 

 first ablative has kai; the second, kinbi- 

 ruy ; the third, katoa ; and the fourth, 

 kinba. 



In all but the first declension, the geni- 

 tive termination is koba, and the first dative, 

 ko. The other cases are formed from the 

 active nominative by changing the final o 

 into ako, dbiruy, oa, and aba. It will there- 

 fore only be necessary to give the termina- 

 tion of the active nominative. 



The active nominative of the second de- 

 clension terminates in to ; of the third in 

 ko; of the fourth in lo; of the fifth in 6 ; 

 and of the sixth in ro. 



Nouns ending in * or in belong to the 

 second declension ; those in j, a, e, o, u, to 

 the third ; those in I to the fourth ; those in 

 ro, belonging to the fifth, require the accent 

 to be shifted to the o, as mdkoro, fish, 

 active nominative, makaro. Nouns of three 

 syllables, ending in re, change the e to o, 



WIRADUREI. 



with names of the lower animals and inani- 

 mate objects. 



The dative of the object terminates in 

 gu ; it is sometimes not distinguished from 

 the genitive. 



The dative of motion or place (to, with, 

 towards, in) always ends in a. 



There is but one ablative, answering to 

 the prepositions from, by, about, concerning, 

 &c. ; its terminal letter is i. 



The declensions are distinguished in this 

 language, according to the mode of forming 

 the active nominative. 



The first declension comprises nil nouns 

 which terminate in i or n ; these form the 

 active nominative as follows : 



SIMPLE NUM. 



-i makes 



In 



an 



in 



in 



an 



ei 



at 



ain 



dyu 

 dyu 

 du 



tu 

 atu 

 atu 

 anlu 



The second declension includes those 

 nouns which end in a, u, or y, and foreign 

 words in m. The active nominative is 

 formed by adding gu to the simple; it is 

 therefore the same with the dative. 



The third declension comprehends all 

 nouns which end in I or r. The active 

 nominative is formed by adding u to the 

 simple. 



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