THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF VICTORIA. 73 



was reported by me in certain aboriginal languages of New 

 South Wales last year. 1 



It is beyond the scope of a short article like this to 

 furnish vocabularies of the dialects of every tribe. I have 

 therefore given two vocabularies only — the Tyattyalla and 

 the Brabirrawulung — the former being representive of the 

 tongues of Western Victoria, and the latter of Eastern 

 Victoria. 



It may be added that a few of Mr. R. B. Smyth's corres- 

 pondents noticed a dual in the pronouns, but the existence 

 of an inclusive and exclusive form in the dual and plural 

 was not observed by them. Portions of the conjugations 

 of a few verbs were also supplied to Mr. Smyth by some 

 of his contributors, but the grammatical structure of the 

 dialects was left untouched. 



Applying a possessive suffix to nouns has been observed 

 in several islands of Polynesia. It was also briefly noticed 

 in a few Victorian tribes by some of Mr. R. B. Smyth's 

 correspondents. The distinction between the "we inclu- 

 sive" and we exclusive" has been noticed in many dialects 

 of Polynesia and elsewhere, although not to such a full 

 extent as exemplified in the following pages. 



The existence of a trial number was reported years ago 

 in Aneityunr and some other islands of the Pacific Ocean, 

 and was observed to some extent in the pronouns of the 

 Woddowro tribe in Victoria by Mr. Francis Tuckfield. 3 



The trial number, as existing in the native languages of 

 Victoria, is different in character from that observed in 

 some other countries. For example, in the New Hebrides 

 the case-endings of the dual, trial, and plural are indepen- 

 dent, and vary from each other in form, thus : 



1 Op. cit., p. 127. 



2 Rep. Aust. Assoc, Adv. Sci., I., pp. 482 - 483. 3 Op. cit., vn., p. 482. 



