AUSTRALIA. 



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KAMILARAI. 



bay, I ; tin, me 

 bi, thou ; bin, thee 

 nou, he ; ban, him 

 boiintoa, she; notin, her 



There are three dual pronouns, 6aft, 

 we two ; buki, ye two ; buloara, they two. 

 They are thus declined 



NOH. ACC. GEN. 1 ST DAT. 



bali yalin yaliuba yalinko, &c. 

 bula bulun bulunba bulunko 

 buloara buloara buloarakoba buloarako 



Buloara, when used as a nominative to 

 a verb, becomes buloaro; the others un- 

 dergo no change. 



Bali properly signifies " thou and I ;" to 

 express " he and F," or " she and I," the 

 adjunct pronouns of the third person sin- 

 gular are added ; as 



Nom. bali noa, we two, he and I 

 Ace. yalin ban, us two, him and me 

 Gen. yalinba ban, of us two 

 Nom. ball boltntoa, she and I 

 Ace. yalin notrn, her and me 

 Gen. yalinba nottn, of us two 



A peculiar kind of dual (if such it may 

 be called), in which the nominative and 

 accusative are combined, is used in con- 

 junction with the verb. There are six of 

 these compound pronouns : 



banuy, I thee 

 banoOn, I her 

 binuy, thou him 

 binotrn, thou her 

 biloa, he thee 

 bintoa, she thee 



WIRADUREI. 



THIRD PERSON. 



Nom. guin or yin (contracted gu) ; Gen. 

 guy; Dat. yuan; Ace. yin; Abl. tien. 



The dual pronouns are, bali, we two ; 

 yindu-bula, ye two ; yain-bula, they two. 

 The first is thus declined : 



Simp. nom. bali, we two (thou and I) 



Act. nom. yali, we two do 



Ace. -galigin, us two 



Gen. yaliginguna, of us two 



1st Dat. yaligingu, for us two 



2d Dat. yaligindya, to, or toward us 



Abl. yaligindyi, from, by, &c., us 



In the pronoun of the second person, 

 yindu and bula are both varied ; as 



Simp. nom. yindu bula, you two 



Act. nom. yindu bulagu, 



Gen. yinu bulagu, of you two 



1st Dat. " " for you two 



2d Dat. yinyunda bulaga, to you two 



Ace. yinyal bula, you two 



Abl. yinyundi buladi, from, by you 

 two 



The declension of yain-bula is not given ; 

 probably only the last word is varied. Bu- 

 laguol, the other two, is varied according 

 to the third declension of nouns. 



To express "he and I," the pronoun 

 guin, he, is prefixed, without change, to all 

 the cases of bali; as, guin-bali, he and I ; 

 act. nom. guin-yali ; ace. guin-yaligin, &c. 



The combined dual pronouns do not exist 

 in this dialect. 



They are used in such expressions as 

 " I love thee," " thou strikes! him," &c. 

 They make the nearest approach which 



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