1903. | MATHEWS—ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES. 185 
All the languages spoken in the eastern portion of Victoria are 
identical in grammatical structure with the Gundungurra language 
reported by me to this Society last year, although their vocabularies 
are altogether different. Westward of the 145th meridian of lon- 
gitude all the Victorian languages have the same structure as the 
Wamba Wamba, with the exception of a strip of country on the 
lower Murray river. 
NOUNS. 
Number.—Karrange, a kangaroo. Karrange bullang, two kan- 
garoos. Karrange girtawal, several kangaroos. 
Gender.—Wurtinge, aman. Laiur,a woman. Banggo, a boy. 
Bannulaiur, a girl. Bupu, a child of either sex. The sex of ani- 
mals is indicated by using the word mamo for males, and baba for 
females ; thus, willunge mamo, a male opossum; willunge baba, a 
female opossum. 
Case.—The nominative: Wanne, a boomerang. Kenninge, a 
yamstick. Wirrangin, adog. Litrnge, a camp. 
The Causative: Wurtulu karange dhakkin, a man hit a kan- 
garoo. Laiuru bupu dhakkin, a woman beat a child. 
Possessive: Wurtua wanne, a man’s boomerang. Every object 
over which ownership can be exercised is subject to inflection for 
number and person, thus: 
PSU ECESOM: er-sictseve ae My boomerang Wannai 
Singular .... 4 2d ie hit eee ae Thy boomerang Wannin 
3d Cn eee torte His boomerang Wannu 
This declension extends to all the persons and numbers, in each 
of which one example will be sufficient : 
10 1 Lee ae Our, inclusive, boomerang Wannul 
places arctan Our, inclusive, boomerang Wannangurkullik 
lara fee. 2 Our, inclusive, boomerang Wannungur 
Dative: Lirndal, to the camp. 
Ablative: Ltrnung, from the camp. 
ADJECTIVES. 
Adjectives follow the noun qualified, as kurwinge kurong-untu, 
an emu large. Kurwinge bannutu, an emu small. They are in- 
flected for number and case like the nouns, and comparison is 
effected as in the Murawarri 
