Rat & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 131 



ngaihia, they have been (their abiding is) with me ; mdbaeg ina 

 sihuwanan ngihia amadmi, love the man near thee ; lesu nubia gimal 

 tanoriz, Jesus sat on top of him ; palae matadohura getoivaniz senahi 

 -palamun api a nubia Tcaiim., they immediately left their nets and 

 followed him ; Tceda maigi ngitamunia, don't let it be like (that) with 

 you ; areto mid'6 siei ngitamunia ? how many loaves have you (what 

 loaves there with you) ? ngoi muia utiz tanamunia, we enter into them ; 

 tanamunia ai aiginga, they have no food. 



For the suffix ia, in the sense of " have, possess," see Nouns, 4 [g). 



(h) The Locative suffijs -nu is not found in use with pronouns. The 

 suffixes nanga and nge are discussed in the section on JS'ouns. 



(/) A suffix ka appears with the pronouns ngi and ngita, but its 

 meaning is not very clear. It may be an abbreviation of the future 

 particle Tcai. 



Example : Ngika laho uzar nginu lagopa, go home again to thy 

 house ; ngitaha mata horawaig ? don't you perceive ? 



(/) Self is expressed by the addition of Tcusaig to the singular 

 pronouns ngai and ngi ; ngaihusaig, myself ; ngilusaig, thyself. In 

 the plural the pronoun is reduplicated, ngoingoi, ourselves ; ngitangita^ 

 yourselves ; tanatana, themselves. In the third singular, himself is 

 expressed by the simple pronoun noi. 



Example : Mipa ngitangita ia uman ? why did ye dispute among 

 yourselves ? aipa baropudaipa tanatayiamiilpa, to buy food for them- 

 selves ; durai noido igilipaliz, a horaivaig noino igilipalan^ he saved others, 

 and he cannot save himself; Tcapuza noi ubigiasin noi, let him deny 

 himself ; Kusaig is also used for " alone." lesu mata nongo Icusaig siei 

 lagonu, Jesus (was) there alone (only Himself) on the land. 



2. Inteeeogatxve Peonouns. 



{a) The personal interrogative is Nga ? who ? declined as fol- 

 lows : — 



Nominative, nga ? who ? 



Instrumental, ngado ? by whom ? 



Accusative, ngano ? whom ? 



Possessive, ngonu ? whose ? 

 The dative, ablative, locative, and ergative do not appear. 



Example : Nga ngulaig igililenga ? who can be saved ? ngau 

 dumawaliuia ngo garabotradiz ? who touched my clothes ? ngai nga ? I 

 am who ? nga ngibepa poiban senabi mura %a ina ? who gave thee all 



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