WlRRUNG. 



This vocabulary was obtained in 1915 from natives camped 

 near Murat Bay. The language is closely related to Parn- 

 kalla (spoken in the southern part of Eyre Peninsula), and 

 more distantly to the extinct Adelaide language, ( 2) and others 

 on the eastern side of Spencer Gulf. In fact, all the 

 languages from Adelaide northwards along the Flinders 

 Range, at least as far as Mount Freeling, and westward and 

 northward in a great sweep to the Everard Ranges and 

 beyond Fowler Bay, probably to the Western Australian 

 border, are so closely allied in their vocabulary that they must 

 be considered as one group, which might be known as the 

 "Tindo family," from the name for "the sun," which is 

 common to almost all of them. 



Gathering the words, as I did, from a number of blacks, 

 pure-blood and half-caste, in the same camp, it seemed to 

 me that there was considerable difference of dialect among 

 them, and this view is corroborated by the Rev. C. A. Wie- 

 busch, Principal of the Koonibba Mission, Denial Bay. 

 During several years of residence at the mission he has had 

 unrivalled opportunities for studying the language, and I 

 was glad to hear from him that he proposes some day tc 

 publish a grammar and vocabulary. Such a work would be an 

 invaluable record, and would serve to correct many errors 

 which have doubtless crept into this outline of the language, 

 the result of only a few days' observations. 



baia kola, make a fire ! 



baka (paka), tobacco; baka badjil, to smoke tobacco. 



bala'-^ali^, we; bala'^alir/ uldin tji : kibi r/uni, we come 

 from Streaky Bay. 



bala-^u (perhaps the causative case of ba'lardu) : bala^u 

 r;alara me : 1 jadu wi:ona 'dalga, she thinks herself 

 a pretty woman. 



ba'lardu, he, she: ba'lardu jadu na^ga, he (is) a good 

 man; r/anta wi:ona ba'lardu, a bad woman (is) she. 



ba^gola, the Parnkalla tribe. 



be : ri, finger-nail. 



bona, iguana (galloping lizard). 



bi : a, moon. 



bibo (pibo), paper. 



bildoma, mussel (bivalve). 



biligi, billy-can. 



bir/'gudara : won a bir/'gudara, in the middle of the sea. 



(2) -'Outlines of a Grammar, Vocabulary, and Phraseology of 

 the aboriginal language of South Australia, spoken by the natives 

 in and for some distance around Adelaide.'" C. G. Teichelmann 

 and C. W. Schurmann. Adelaide. 1840. 

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