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R. H. MATHEWS. 





English. 



Kamilaroi. 



Mystic. 



Water 



Kolli 



Wungothubbil 



Boomerang 



Burran 



Wanggaribul 



A stone 



Yarral 



Wallamari 



Father 



Baina 



Muddhamunna 



Elder brother 



Daidhi 



Muddhunga 



Clever man, 



Wirringan 



Gundaidhar 



A man 



Giwir 



Maimba 



A woman 



Inar 



Winnilwanga 



Behold! 



ISTgummilla 



Unggomilli 



Camp 



Wullai 



Nyimarai 



In ordinary Kamilaroi conversation, kuttliabulda is the 

 noise made wliile copulating, and burrabuncla means 

 emission. If anything remarkable or jocular is being nar- 

 rated, one or more of the hearers will exclaim " Kuttlia- 

 bulda ! " or " Burrabunda !" or perhaps both words will be 

 interjected by different persons. They are used indis- 

 criminately by men and women. 



7 — The Dyirringan Language. 

 The remnants of the Dyirringan tribe occupy the northern 

 half of the county of Auckland, on the south-east coast of 

 New South Wales. They are bounded on the north by the 

 Thoorga-speaking people, whose language I have elsewhere 

 dealt with. 1 On the south are the Thawa and other tribes, 

 whilst the Muddhang and Ngarrugu occupy the country to 

 the west. Stretching southerly along the sea-coast from 

 the Dyirringan territory to Cape Howe, and onward into 

 Victoria as far. as Anderson's Inlet, into which the Tarwin 

 River empties, in the county of Buln Buln, all the languages 

 are similar in grammatical structure 2 to the Dyirringan, 

 although some of tliem differ considerably in vocabulary. 

 I have also observed here, as in other districts, that two 



1 Queensland Geographical Journal, Vol. xvn., pp. 49-60. 

 3 See my "Aboriginal Languages of Victoria," Journ. Roy. Soc, N. S. 

 Wales, Vol. xxxvi , pp. 71 - 106. 



