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range southerly to the sea-coast at Geelong, Melbourne, 

 and Western Port. The Woiwurru tongue is the same 

 in structure as the Thaguwurru, although some words of 

 the vocabulary are different. About Western Port, the 

 Woiwurru was called Bunwurru by some families, but 

 it is essentially the same language. The rules for 

 the declension of nouns, adjectives and other parts of 

 speech are similar in the Thaguwurru and Woiwurru, 

 whilst the pronouns are identical, hence my remarks will 

 be restricted to the conjugation of a verb. In the 

 Thaguwurru the verb "to sit" is ngurna, but in the 

 Woiwurru it is ngulla. 1 



Indicative Mood — Present Tense. 



[ 1st Person I sit, Ngullabuinhan 



Singular < 2nd „ Thou sittest, Ngullabuinher 

 ( 3rd „ He sits, Ngullabuin 



kf Ppi , / We, incl., sit, Ngullabuingul 



ist rei. | We ^ excl ^ git ^ Ngullabuingu 



Dual <J 2nd ,, You sit, Ngullabuinbul 



3rd „ They sit, Ngullabuinbullain 



1 t P i ^ e ' m °l*' s ft> Ngullabuin gunyinbaiap 



.' s er * ( We, excl., sit, Ngullabuingunninyubaiap 



Trial < 2nd ,, You sit, Ngullabuinhatbaiap 



( 3rd ,, They sit, Ngullabuinhurbaiap 



1st Per i We » mcl -» sit » N g ullabuin g un y in 

 .' '"'" ' ( We,excl.,sit,Ngullabuingunninyu 



Plural < 2nd ,, You sit, Ngullabuinhat 



(3rd „ They sit, Ngullabuinhur 



Past Tense. 



[ 1st Person I was sitting, Ngullabuddhan 

 Singular < 2nd „ Thou wast sitting, Ngullabuddher 

 I 3rd ,, He was sitting, Ngullambai 



1 This verb, ngulla, " to sit/ 5 is the same among the Dharruk aborigines 

 in the district of Sydney. See my paper on "The Dharruk Language," 

 Journ. Royal Soc., N.S.W., Vol. xxxv., pp. 155-169. 



