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[ a ete (a e, incl., sit Ngangangul 
Dual We, exclu., sit Ngangangullu 
7 A 2d «s You sit Nganganyulu 
3d <s They sit Ngangabulang 
: Wie, iapioia yeh 
[ Fen ae i bi incl = Ngangangurkullik 
rec eae e, excl., sit Ngangandhankullik 
2d se You sit Ngangangutakullik 
3d “ They sit Ngangandhanakullik 
a We, incl., sit Ngangangur 
Plural We, excl., sit N gangandhak 
pla G9 2d “ You sit Nganganguta 
L 3d “ They sit Ngangandhana 
Past Tense. 
Ist Person...... I sat Nganginan 
Singular .... 2d DG ht ae Thou sattest Nganginar 
3d CATS Raed He sat Ngangin 
future Tense. 
USEVREISOME <1, o's I will sit Nganginyan 
pineular . 2 ..0. 2d Oe soli eee Thou wilt sit Nganginyar 
3d eee atale, eiaie He will sit Ngangin 
The remaining moods are omitted, being similar in constitution 
to those of the Murawarri. 
This is the first occasion on which the /a/, or tr7pée, number 
has been reported in the verbs of any Australian language. Mr. 
J. J. Carey, from the MS. of the late Mr. F. Tuckfield,* published 
alist of pronouns in what he calls the Woddowro language, but 
which I spell Wuddyawurru, in which he shows an incomplete set 
of trial pronouns. He did not, however, observe the double form 
in the first person of the dual, trial and plural, which is now com- 
municated by me in the languages of Victoria for the first time.” 
Among the native tribes on the upper Campaspe, Lodden and 
Avoca rivers, instead of £u//k being the sign of the trial, the word 
baiap is employed, as, Ngurnabuingunyinbaiap, we three sit. 
1 Rep. Aust. Assoc. Adv, Sct., Vol, vii, p. 842 and p. 853. 
2 | have, however, previously discovered and reported the existence of two 
forms of the first person of the dual and plural in the nouns, pronouns, verbs, 
adverbs and prepositions of the Gundungurra, one of the native languages of 
New South Wales: Proc. AMER. PHILOs, Soc., Vol. xl, pp. 140-148. 
