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THE SPEECH OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES. 



Lullabi, loa.llibe, ship — lulla, foot, oar-beat ; ; pe„ 

 active. 



Lugra nire, right foot — lug-na, foot ; nire, g-ood. It 

 is significant that a distinction of usefuhiess was 

 made between the right foot and the left. In MilH- 

 gan's list, we find in the Eastern Vocabulary — luggana 

 elibana, right foot ; lug, foot ; ali, good ; pa, strong, 

 luaggan aoota, left foot ; lug, foot ; wutta, heavy. In 

 the Southern — lugga worina, right foot ; lug, foot ; 

 war — pal, strong; lugga oangta, lug, foot, wang'::=pen, 

 stick, stiff; ta, stop, not elastic. In the Western 

 and North-Western — malleare, right foot; pal, strong; 

 lea, sufBx ; re, moving, foot ; oolatyneeale ; left 

 foot ; pug, foot ; lea, suffix ; ta, not elastic ; no, not ; 

 ali, good. We note also the shortening of the syllables 

 in the Western words. 



Lialarragonna, sneeze — lia, quick ; lanna, sharp ;. 

 kana, sound. 



Lanne, strike — len, swift motion. 



GENERAL VOCABULARY. 



The NUMERALS are given by H. Ling Roth thus 

 (P- 133):— 



ONE — marawah, mara, marrawan, borar, parmere,. 

 pammere, marai, par-me-ry. 



■TWO — piawah, poi-erinna, pyanerbarwar, calaba- 

 wah, boulah, katabouve, bura, cal-a-ba-wa. 



THREE— luwah, wyandirwar, aliri, cardia. 



FOUR — pagunta, wullyawah, cardia. 



FIVE — puggana, marah, karde, kardia. 



TEN — karde-karde. 



According to my theory of the Tasmanian speech, 

 these words are far less perplexing than they appear 

 here, and would show that the xAboriginals had no con- 

 ception of abstract numbers, but merely of such notions 

 as big, little, arm, hand. 



Anything noticed individually or rather, " pointed 

 at," was pa, in some form or other, with emphatic repe- 

 tition and nominal suffix ra or na. 



