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waSaryko, whence (T. and S., wadangko) ; waSaryko inna? 



where do you come from ? 

 wakaku, child (T, and S., wakwakko). 

 wa^i, house (T. and S., wodli). 

 warar/ku, sick, ill (T. and S., warrangko). 

 wara, language (T. and S., warra). 



Narrunga. 

 This is the language spoken by the tribe ['narur/a], which 

 inhabited northern Yorke Peninsula. Like all the coastal 

 languages east of the two gulfs, it is very closelv allied to the 

 Adelaide speech; in fact, the coastal tribes from Cape Jervis 

 to north of Port Augusta can have had no difficulty in under- 

 standing each other. Mrs. Sarah Newchurch was a most 

 intelligent assistant, and Harry Richards, native name 

 ['wai^wia], i.e., ''fifth son," also gave me a number of words. 

 He is an old, full-blooded native, and blind. He claims to 

 be the last representative of the Wallaroo blacks, 

 adje, mother, 

 adjeli, father, 

 aryki, woman ( = r]Rrjki). 

 baitja, snake (in general), 

 baka, tobacco, also black snake. 



baZa (almost barla), woman (used cont-emptuously). 

 baZu (almost barlu), by him or her (causative case). 

 baZudja (ba/idja), died ; rjtxrjki baZudja, the woman is dead ; 



ryaitju J6Zi baZidja, my husband is dead, 

 bamani, come or go (imperative). 



bamatja (bamadja), going, coming; nini wanti bamadja ? 

 where are you going?; bamatjai, I api going (also 

 T7ai bamatja) ; r/adjeli barni bamanir;, my father is 

 coming here; mu:ntanu bamaninu, you are going to 

 Moonta. 

 ba^ida (barnta), stone; ba??da waZi (stone house). 

 ba72dala, back (of body). 



bar;gara, country. This is the "pangkarra" of the Ade- 

 laide tribe, which T. & S. describe as "the district 

 belonging to an individual, which he inherits from 

 his father." 

 bapi, father. 



baZu (barlu), by him, her (causative), 

 barna, iguana. 



barnu, his or her; barnu adje, his or her mother, 

 barnugu, their; barnugu adje, their mother. 

 bi:ku, forehead; bi:ku buti, eye-brows, 

 bilta, opossum; bilta balta, opossum rug. 

 bindara (bin'dirja), white man, European ( = gudnju). 



