THE LANGUAGES OF AUSTRALIA. 83 
The following table illustrates this :— 
Australia, 
Man Echuca moanit mi Marawi 
4 Yelta maalee mulo iri 
Morcovia nunna nona Nyamban 
ora. beng wi 
Head Gunbower moorun muru Kiriman 
Hair Wickliffe marah murit Kiriman 
arra arro ikarare Muntu 
Gippsland feet lefu Mutsaya 
dens ka, [mbeta i 
Ear Echuca 0 maro Matabau 
wooring nyaru wi 
Tooth Echuca derra Nyamban 
Sandford tungung 
Yarra lecang leene Marawi 
Mouth Sandford mullong Meto 
Morcovia moun [munua Kabenda 
lton kone [li-kan La 
Sun Bulloo i etana Muntu, day 
[tangu Ka 
Yarra ngume {ekombi Pangela] 
Two Moreton Bay bu 
Yarra bollo-ween peli 9 
N.S. Wales pulla 
I Victoria ngie ni Muntu 
ngan ne Nyamban 
Australia on 
gu 
It is very that we can so distinctly lay down languages 
which are really related but widely distributed. There is, there- 
nba no mistake that the language of = Melbourne tribes is of 
class of languages to which they no cect a ale 
initial syllable is of great import 
This brings us direct pers of great authority on the 
Bantu languages, by the late ee oe H. Bleek, contributed by him 
at the request of Professor Huxley to the Anthropolo ogical Society 
An uestitute, and to. be found in Vol, I of the Journal of the 
| From Bleek 
the eae, of the grammatical points, Dr. 
ey — that the Australian were related to 
the Bantu, and this he develops in a most remarkable paper on 
: Here, too, he examines what another great comparative philolo- 
gist, Bishop Caldwell, had done in the Comparative Grammar of 
the Dravidian Languages, is tk Oe of the 
Australian first personal pronoun with the Dravidian and some 
