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the sound of j or eft, thus dya or tya closely resemble ja 

 or cha. At the end of a word or syllable, ty or dy is 

 sounded as one letter ; thus, lity, a child, can be pronounced 

 exactly by assuming e to be added to the y, making it 

 lit-ye ; then commence articulating the word, including 

 the y, but stopping short without sounding the added e. 

 By at the end of a word can be pronounced in the same 

 way, the sound of d being substituted for that of t. In all 

 cases where there is a double consonant, each letter is 

 distinctly enunciated. 



The Tyattyalla Language. 

 The Tyat'-tyal-la is spoken by the natives about Lakes 

 Werringen and Albacutya, and is representative of the 

 speech of all the tribes scattered over the whole of that 

 moiety of Victoria situated west of a line from the sea 

 coast at Geelong 1 through Bendigo northerly to Pyramid 

 Hill, with the exception of the frontage to the Murray 

 River, from the latter place downwards. 



The Boandik language, 2 spoken in the south-east corner 

 of South Australia, defined by being situated to the south 

 of a line from Kingston to Border Town, is the same in 

 grammatical structure as the languages of western Victoria 

 herein dealt with. 



Nouns. 

 Number. — There are four numbers — singular, dual, trial 

 and plural. Wutyu, a man ; wutyu-bulin, a couple of men ; 

 wutyu-kullik, three men ; wutyu-getyaul, several men. 



Gender. — Wutyu, a man. Laiaruk, a woman. Kulkun, 

 a boy. Lanangurk, a girl. Among animals, mamuk is 

 used for "male," and pabuk for "female," both in mam- 

 mals and birds ; thus, wille mamuk, a buck opossum ; kauar 



1 " Victorian Aborigines etc.," — American Anthropologist, xi , pp. 331 

 - 336. Map. 



2 Op. cit., pp. 331 - 336, and map of Victoria. 



