THE LANGUAGES OF THE NEW HEBRIDES. 109 
Other Melanesian dialects in the Vocabulary are :—(34) Mota, 
in ‘Banks’ islands’; (35) yz; (36) Lefu, in the Loyalty Islands, 
off New Caledonia. 
PoLYNESIAN DIALECTS IN THE New HEBRIDES. 
I. Furuna island (30), to the east of Tanna; Anriwa island (31) 
to the north-east of Tanna. 7 
II. Emaz island (32) (Central district) or ‘Three Hills’ island, 
to the north of Efate. 
III. Metz island (33) and Fix island, in ‘South-west Bay’(Efate). 
Other Polynesian dialects in the Vocabulary are:—(37) Samoan, 
(38) Maor. 
CoMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THIRTY-THREE DIALECTS OF THE 
New HEBRIDES, COMPILED BY SIDNEY H. Ray. 
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[To Mr. Ray’s list I have added a few lines, numbered 39, 40, 
4], 42, drawn from personal sources* which are not available in 
London, but which may be useful to philologists in tracing the 
connection of the Ebudany dialects with others. These are ex- 
amples of the :—(39) Tazan dialect of Uvéa (Loyalty Islands), the 
Nengonese of (40) Maré Is. (Loyalty Islands), (41) the language of 
New Britain Is., to the east of New Guinea, and (42) of DuKE 
oF York IsLAND, a small island which lies in the narrow strait 
between New Britain and New Ireland; as an example of the 
dialects spoken on the south coast of New Guinea, I add (43) the 
Motu dialect of Port Moressy, the best known on that coast. 
These examples I have written in Mr. Ray’s alphabet. In the © 
Taian dialect, most of the personal nouns are here given with the 
suffix consonant of the third person, as kamen, ‘his father’; the 6 
is very broad, something like or in sound, and @ is like éu,; g is 
only g hard in this dialect, and ng represents the nasal g, the in- 
verted comma, as in ‘veto, marks a nasal sound. In Lifuan, éisa 
subdued nasal, like the last sound in the French b6i-en, and 6 is 
nearly the German 6.—J.F.] 
* See list of authorities at the end of this paper. 
+ It is awkward to have to use New Hebrides as an adjective. I there- 
fore substitute Ebudan and Ebudans formed from Ebudes, the classical 
name for the old Hebrides.—JaF. | 
