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Prepositions. 

 Prepositions may be either separate words, or consist 

 of modifications of other parts of speech to give them a 

 prepositional meaning. Several prepositions can be in- 

 flected for number and person, like the Thoorga. 1 



Buth, between, as, Dakanbulung buth, box-trees two 

 between (between two box-trees). 



j 1st Person Behind me, Gandingitha 

 Singular < 2nd „ Behind thee, Gandingina 

 ( 3rd ,, Behind him, Gandinung 



Numerals. 

 Gutaban, one. Bulaman, two. 



Conclusion. 

 Having now fulfilled the gratifying duty of preserving a 

 record of the grammatical elements of the aboriginal lan- 

 guages of Victoria, I will ask the reader's indulgence for 

 any shortcomings which are necessarily incident to the first 

 attempt to master a difficult subject — especially when the 

 immense geographic area dealt with is taken into consider- 

 ation. When first entering upon this work it was found to 

 possess no literature, beyond a few vocabularies, already 

 referred to in the preface to this article, and all my infor- 

 mation had to be obtained orally from the natives. Now, 

 however, that I have overcome the initial difficulties of 

 laying down the elements of the grammar of the several 

 languages, it will be comparatively easy for any future 

 investigator to extend and improve the work I have begun. 



Vocabulary. 



The following vocabulary contains 325 English words, 



with their equivalents in Tyattyalla and also in Brabirra- 



wulung, making a total of 650 aboriginal terms. Every 



word in the vocabulary has been taken down by myself in 



1 See my "Thoorga and Yookumbil Languages," — Proc. Roy. Geog. 

 Soc. Aust., Q. Branch, Vol. xvn., p. 49 - 73. 



