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APPENDIX. 



The Gundungurra Language. 



The Gundungurra tribes occupied the country to the west of 

 the Thurrawal and Dharruk, as far as Goulburn, where they 

 adjoined the Ngunawal tribes. An abstract of the grammar of 

 the language is now supplied, to show its affinity to the Thurrawal, 

 being the result of my own investigations among the Gundungurra 

 blacks. 



Nouns. — The dual and plural of nouns are shown by suffix, 1 

 particles: Singular, Wille, an opossum. Dual, Willewulali, a pair 

 of opossums. Plural, Willedyargang, several opossums. 



In the human family different words are used for the masculine 

 and feminine, as, Murrin, a man; bullan, a woman. Bubal, a 

 boy; mullangan, a girl. Another name for a man is, baual. 



Among animals gender is distinguished by placing gaual or 

 gumbail after the name of the male, and dhuruk after that of the 

 female, thus: Gula gumban, a buck bear; gula dhuruk, a female 

 bear. Gumban and dhuruk take the same inflection for number 

 as the noun with which they are used. 



This language has the same cases as the Thurrawal, some only 

 of which will be exemplified: There are two forms of the nomin- 

 ative case, one merely naming the object at rest, as, Murrin 

 ngamburaman, the man sleeps. When the man is doing some act, 

 a suffix is applied, as, Murrindya gula wobburan, the man a bear 

 struck. The example last given also serves to show the accusative, 

 because in that expression no change takes place in the word gula. 

 In some phrases, however, there is an inflection, as, Berraga 

 yerrimangga, I am throwing a boomerang ; Bubal nin berraga 

 yellimunnin, boy this a boomerang will carry. Again, Baualla 

 berra bubalngura yerririn, a man a boomerang at a boy threw. 

 In this example the remote object, bubal, the boy, takes a suffix. 



In the possessive case the name of the possessor and that of the 

 object possessed each take a suffix: Bubalngu ngauangung, a boy's 

 mother. Baualngu berrawung, a man's boomerang. Mirrigangu 



