Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 281 



"where D'Albertis used o, and vice-versa. Mortu for moto, moh-or for 

 ■muo, do-or for duo. Beardmore also used o for short a. Toggaha for 

 tagaa, gohha gohha for g&bagaba. 



2. Diphthongs. — at as in aisle ; au, as ow in cow. 



Beardmore usually has y or i for ai, ow for au. Savage apparently 

 uses ou for axi. 



3. CoNSONAi^is. — Ic, g ; t, d; p, b; w; s, z; h; r, l\ m, n. 

 Beardmore and D'Albertis often have gh where others have g. 



They also use c. In the former it is always equivalent to an English c 

 in a similar position, as copo-or for Jcopoa, coolar for kula, cow-e-tar-too 

 for Tcawitato^ care for hea. D'Albertis uses it also for Jc in camicami, 

 for hamihami, cunaro for hmaro, caco for haho ; hut in ace it is possible 

 that the Italian c or English ch in chin may he intended, especially as 

 Ic is written before e in other words, healcea, Tcersimae^ etc. 



D'Albertis has I for Savage's u and Beardmore's lo. Ibiu for min 

 or iwia^ olera for ouera or icera. In one case he has v for m, vi'^r* for 

 uiari. 



In ^20(?/«(? for soX-e, D'Albertis has tz for s and ch for X*. It is 

 douhtful whether h should be used. It is written hy Beardmore and 

 D'Albertis, and in a few words in Savage's irs. MacGregor only uses 

 it in the words sihua, polio, tumaho, and hanualoi. The last is a ITotu 

 word. 



§ II. — Pronouns. 



1 . Peksoa'al : 



These are declined by means of suffixes. The cases found are the 

 JS"ominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative, and Ergative. 



(«) Nominative. — The simple forms of the pronouns are as follows : 



Singular, 1, mo, I; 2, ro, thou; 3, nou, he, she, or it. 



Plural, 1, nimo, we ; 2, nigo, you; 3, nil, they. 



For mo and ro, MacGregor writes Mou and rou 



Dual and Trial forms also appear thus : — 



Dual, 1, nimo-to, we two; 2, nigo-to, you two; nei-to, they two. 



Trial, 1, nimo-ili, we three; nigo-ili, you three; 3. 



Nimo-to and the trial are given only hy MacGregor. Savage has 

 nimo'ihi-na with the possessive as the equivalent of the Miriam posses- 

 sive meriha, so that it appears as a special form for the inclusive ratlier 

 than as a trial. 



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