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like the mainland languages taken together, than it is like the Saihai^ 

 and that Miriam is more like Daiidai than the Saibai. The 

 correspondences bet"vreen the island languages and the Dabu are 

 equal. These results may be tabulated thus : — 





MIRIAM. 



SAIBAI. 



DAUDAI. 



DABU. 



Miriam, . 





109 



94 



51 



Saibai, . 



109 





25 



51 



Daudai, . 



94 



25 





19 



Dabu, 



51 



51 



19 





Other Papuan vocabularies published in the Reports, 1892-1894^ 

 are those of : ( 1 ) Domara and Mairu (central portion of South Coast of 

 iXew Guinea and Island of Mairu) ; (2) Toaripi (the same as the 

 Motumotu); (3) Orokolo (nearly the same as the Toaripi) ; (4) Maipua 

 (on the Purari Delta). These show no correspondences (beyond those 

 iu Pt. I., p. 509) with the Torres Straits or Daudai languages. 



The distinction between Melanesian and Papuan first indicated in 

 the first part of this study, has been more fully illustrated as to 

 language in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute (1894), 

 and in the "Decorative Art of British New Guinea" — Cunningham 

 Memoirs, Royal Irish Academy, 1894. It has been adopted by Mr. 

 A. H. Keane in his work on " Ethnology," Cambridge, 1896 ; and is 

 further confirmed by the existence in German New Guinea of non- 

 Melanesian dialects.^ In the Katedong or Rush language in the 

 Hinterland of Pinschhafen, nouns and pronouns are declined as in 

 Miriam. The verb has complicated forms : — 



mama, father, 

 mama-dsi, 



Indefinite case, 



Case of author, 



Pinal, 



Locative, 



Vocative, 



Praedicativc, 



mama-te, 

 mama-he, 

 mama-mai, 

 mama-tine, 



oiengo, mother, 



nengo-dsi, 



nengo-te, 



nengo-he, 



nengo-mai, 



nengo-tine, 



maleng, earth. 

 maleng-dsi. 

 maleng-te. 

 maleng-go. 



^ See Zeitschrift fiir afiikanische und oceanischc Sprachen, I. Jahrgang. 

 1 Heft., 1895, p. 83. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Kai-Dialekte auf Grund des 

 von Herrn Missionar Job. Fliert in Simbang gesammelten Materials bearbeitet von 

 W. Griibe. 



