60 5 ey R. H. MATHEWS. 
In the Bungandity language, inflection for person and 
number is not confined to the verbs and pronouns, but 
extends to many of the nouns, adjectives, prepositions, 
adverbs and interjections, a peculiarity which was reported 
in detail by me in certain aboriginal tongues of New South 
Wales,’ Victoria,’ and Queensland.’ 
A feature of the genitive case in the Bungandity tongue, 
not reported by any previous writer as existing in the 
aboriginal languages of South Australia, is that the pro- 
prietor and the property both take a possessive affix. I was 
likewise the first author to report a similar doukle form of 
the genitive case in the languages of New South Wales,* 
and Victoria.’ 
In every part of speech subject to inflection in this 
language, there are two forms of the first person of the 
dual, trial, and plural, one of which includes, and the other 
excludes, the individual who is spoken to. This peculiarity 
has not hitherto been reported in any of the native 
languages of South Australia. 
In consequence of my visit through the territory of the 
Bungandity people and their congeners in 1898, I contributed 
to the Anthropological Society at Washington, an article 
dealing with their social organisation and initiation cere- 
monies, for particulars of which the reader is referred to 
the publication in question. 
1 « Thurrawal, Gundungurra and Dharruk Languages,”’—Journ. Roy. 
Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxv., pp. 127 — 160. 
2 «<The Aboriginal Languages of Victoria,’—Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.- 
Wales, xxxvi., pp. 71-106. | 
5 « Languages of Some Native Tribes of Queensland, etc.”—Journ. Roy. 
Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxv1., pp. 135 — 190. 
* Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., Philadelphia, xu., p. 143. 
5 Journ. Roy. Soc. N. 8S. Wales, xxxvi., p. 78. 
6 «The Victorian Aborigines—their Initiation Ceremonies and Divisional 
Systems,’—American Anthropologist, x1., pp. 331-336, with map of 
Victoria. ite) Cli itie. (Po bed 
