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1st Person I We ' inclusive > Ngaianga 

 ist person ^ w ^ exclusive? Ngaiangulu 



Dual <j 2nd „ You, Indigumbul 



1 3rd ,, They, Waraligimbula 



1st Person 1 We ' inclusive > Ngaianyin 

 ( lst rerson ) We, exclusive, Ngaianyilla 

 Plural { 2nd ,, You, Indiganyu 



1 3rd ,, They, Waraligima 



The following are the possessive pronouns of the first 



person singular — the other numbers being passed over : 



| lst Person Mine, Ngaialunggulal 

 Singular I 2nd „ Thine, Indigunggulal 



( 3rd ,, His, Waraliminyawa 



There are two sorts of possessives — those which have 

 just been mentioned, and those which are suffixed to a noun 

 as badyaldya, my camp, exemplified in a previous page. 



There are forms of the pronoun signifying " away from 

 me," "towards me," etc., which need not now be particu- 

 larised. 



Demonstratives. — This, nyan; that, nyanya. These and 

 other forms are very numerous, and are inflected for num- 

 ber and case, as in the Thurrawal and Thoorga, thus : — 



Singular — Baiil mundur nyanya, man large that. 

 Dual — Baiilwula mundurwula nyangimbula,men large those 

 Plural — Baiilma mundurma nyangima, men large those. 



Interrogatives. — Wannunggal, who ? Wannunggulal, 

 whose? Minya, what? Minyane, what for? 



Pronominal suffixes, in abbreviated forms, are used in 

 great number and variety in the declension of nouns, 

 adjectives, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, and interjections; 

 examples of which are given under these parts of speech 

 in the present paper. 



Verbs. 



The verb "to be" has apparently a substitute in the word 

 gaia, which is inflected for number and person. 1 If an 



1 '* The Aboriginal Languages of Victoria/' Journ. Roy. Soc, N. S. 

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



