THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF VICTORIA. 79 



Person. Trial. 



1 { Our, inch, boomerang, Gattimgattimurrakullik 

 ( Our, excl., boomerang, Gattimgattimandakullik 



Person. Plural. 



. , f Our, incL, boomerang, Gattimgattimurrak 

 ( Our, excl., boomerang, Gattimgattimandak 



The second and third persons of the dual, trial and plural 

 are omitted for want of space. 



Accusative. — The accusative is the same as the simple 

 nominative. Instrumental. — Where a weapon or other 

 article is the remote object, the instrumental case takes 

 the agent suffix, as, Wutyu gattimgattimu burdenan, a man 

 with a boomerang struck I. Dative. — Lahrndal, to a camp. 

 Ablative. — Lahrnung, from a camp. 



Adjectives. 

 Adjectives are inflected for number and case and follow 

 the nouns they qualify, as under : 



Nominative — Wutyu kurunge, a man large. 



Nom. agent — Wutyuk kurunguk gattimgattim yunggin, 

 a man large a boomerang threw. 



Possessive — Wutyuga kurunga gattimgattimuk, a large 

 man's boomerang. 



Dative — Wutyugal kurungal, to the big man. 



Ablative — Wutyugung kurungung, from the big man. 



Comparison is effected by such expressions as " This is 

 good ; that is bad ; this is very good," and so on, similarly 

 to the Thurrawal and Gundungurra languages. 1 



Pronouns. 



Pronouns are inflected for number and case, and are 



without gender. There are two forms of the third person 



in the dual, trial and plural, one of which includes the 



individual addressed, and the other excludes him. The 



1 Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xxxv., pp. 133-137, 150, 152. 



