LANGUAGES OF SOME NATIVE TRIBES. 135 



LANGUAGES of some NATIVE TRIBES of QUEENS- 

 LAND, NEW SOUTH WALES and VICTORIA. 



By R. H. Mathews, l.s., 



Corres. Memb. Anthrop. Soc, Washington, U.S.A. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, September 3, 1902.'] 



Synopsis. — Prefatory. Grammatical structure of the following Aus- 

 tralian languages : 



Queensland — 1 Yualeai. 2 Pikumbil. 



N. S. Wales — 3 Kawambarai. 4 Wongaibon. 5 Kurnu. 6 Tyake or 



Mystic Language. 7 Dyirringan. 

 Victoria — 8 Yotayota. 9 Bureba. 

 Comprehensive Vocabularies of Kurnu, Yualeai and Yotayota words. 



In tlie following pages it is intended to exhibit the gram- 

 matical structure of the languages of some tribes in 

 southern Queensland, in the central districts of New South 

 Wales, and in the northern frontier of Victoria, the whole 

 being the result of my own personal researches in the 

 camps of the natives. It is hoped that work of this char- 

 acter will be found of some value to philologists by enabling 

 them to compare the aboriginal tongues of Australia not 

 only among themselves, but with others in different islands 

 of Polynesia, Melanesia, and various parts of the Pacific 

 Ocean. 



In two papers 1 recently contributed to this Society I 

 have described the constitution of the native tongues in 

 the south-east corner of South Australia, the whole of 

 Victoria, and the south-east coast of New South Wales 



1 "The Aboriginal Languages of Victoria," with Vocabularies. — Journ. 

 Royal Soc, N. S. Wales, Vol. xxxvi., pp. 71 - 106. This paper explains 

 the grammatical constitution of six Victorian languages. 



"The Thurrawal, Gundungurra, and Dharruk Languages," with Vocabu- 

 lary, op. cit., Vol. xxxv., pp. 127 - 160. 



