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forms nue and na. Pale, the dual form, occurs in the 

 "SVestem Australian, the Xew South Wales, the South 

 Australianj and the Pamkalla as foUo'ws : boola, bulo-ara, 

 purl-a, pudlanbi=they two. 



2. 



Singular ngi-du=ihou, thee. 



Dual ngi-pel=ye two, you two. 



Plural ngi-tana^=ye, you. 



Here the root is limited to the syllable ngi, as she'mi not 

 less by the forms nyi-pel, and ngi-tana, than by the simple 

 Gudang ngi=lhov. 



Kgi, expressire of the second person, is common in 

 Australia: ngi-nnee, ngi-ntoa, ni-nna, ngi-nte^thou, thee, 

 in the W. Australian, X. S. "Wales, Pamkalla, and En- 

 counter Bay dialects. 



Ngi-pel is probably thou +pair ; a priori this is a likely 

 way of forming a dual. As to the reasons a posteriori 

 they are not to be drawn wholly from the Kowrarega 

 tongue itself. Here the word for two is not pel but quassur. 

 But let us look farther. The root p-l, or a modification of 

 i\,,=two in the following dialects ; as well as in the Pam- 

 kalla and others : pur-laitye, poolelte, par-kooloo, bull-a, 

 in the Adelaide, Boraipar, Yak-kumban, and Murrumbidge. 

 That it may stand too for the dual personal pronoun is 

 shewn in the first of these tongues ; since in the Adelaide 

 language purl(t=ye two. Finally, its appearance amongst 

 the pronouns, and its absence amongst the numerals, 

 occurs in the ^Vestern Australian. The numeral two is 

 hardura ; but the dual pronoun is boala. The same pheno- 

 menon would occur in the present English if two circum- 

 stances had taken place, viz., if the Anglo-Saxon dual wi-t 

 =ipe two had been retained up to the present time amongst 

 the pronouns, and the word pair, brace, or couple, had 

 superseded two amongst the numerals. 



