and the Languages of Australia. 



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Australia. 



KlRIMANDI, 



Africa. 



Hair . 



„ Wickliffe ... 



marah 



murit 



Kirirnan 





Yarra 



yarro 



ikarare 



Muntu 





Gippsland ... 



leet 



lefu 



Mutsaya 





Echuca 



boka 



nibeta 



Kisama] 



Ear . 



.. Echuca 



marrmo 



maro 



Matabau 





Yarra 



wooring 



nyaru 



Marawi 



Tooth . 



.. Echuca 



Sand ford ... 



derra 



tungung 



clino 



Nyamban 





Yarra 



leeang 



.eeno 



Marawi 



Mouth . 



.. Sandford ... 



mullong 



nialagu 



Meto 





Morcovia . . . 



moun 



niunua 



Kabendo] 





Hamilton . . . 



kone 



li-kano 



Lubalo] 



Sun 



.. Bulloo 



tuni 



stana 

 "tangu 



Muntu, day 

 Kabencla] 





Yarra 



ngunie 



ekombi 



Pangela] 



Two . 



.. Moreton Bay 



bullae 



beli 



Kirirnan 





Yarra 



bollo-ween ... 



peli 



Kirirnan 





N. S. Wales.. 



pulla 







I 



.. Victoria 



ngie 



li 



Muntu 







ngan ... : 



le 



Nyamban 





S. Australia.. 



ngu 







It is very seldom that we can so distinctly lay down lan- 

 guages which are really related but widely distributed. 

 There is, therefore, no mistake that the language of the 

 Melbourne tribes is of common origin with those of Mozam- 

 bique. 



A curious circumstance will be noticed that, though the 

 words may differ internally, they commonly begin with the 

 same consonants in both continents. This serves to mark 

 them ; for in the class of languages to which they belong, 

 the Bantu or Kaffre, the initial syllable is of great import. 



This brings us direct to papers of the greatest authority on 

 the Bantu languages, the late Dr. W. H. Bleek, contributed 

 by him, at the request of Professor Huxley, to the Anthro- 

 pological Society and Institute, and to be found in Vol. I. of 

 the Journal of the Anthropological Institute. 



From the consideration of the grammatical points, Dr. 

 Bleek was fully convinced that the Australian languages 

 were related to the Bantu, and this he developes in a most 

 remarkable paper on general philology. 



Here, too, he examines what another great comparative 

 philologist (Bishop Caldwell) had done in the comparative 

 grammar of the Dravidian languages as to the wonderful 

 identity of the Australian first personal pronoun with the 



