LANGUAGE OF THE BUNGANDITY TRIBE, S.A. 61 
In 1880, Mrs. James Smith published a vocabulary and a 
few fragments of grammatical rules of the language of this 
tribe, whose name she erroneously gave as Booandik.* Mr. 
BR. M. Curr, in 1886, also published a short vocabulary of 
this language,” but its grammatical structure was left 
untouched. | | 
In a sentence the subject is usually placed first, then the 
direct object, and the verb last. The indirect object often 
follows the verb. An adjective qualifying either the 
nominative or objective, follows the noun. An interroga- 
tive sentence does not differ in form from an assertive one, 
the distinction being indicated by the tone and accentu- 
ation of the speaker’s voice. 
It should be stated that in all the expressions illustrating 
the several cases of nouns in this article, the demonstrative 
pronouns are purposely omitted, for the two-fold purpose 
of saving space, and of avoiding confusion by introducing 
any more words than are really required to exhibit the 
declension. We will take an example from the instru- 
mental case of nouns, where I have said, ‘‘a man beat a 
dog with a boomerang.’’ This would be expressed by a 
blackfellow something as follows :—‘*‘ This-in-front man 
beat yonder-in-the-rear dog with that-over-there boomer- 
ang.’ or such other demonstratives as the subject might 
require. 
All the South Australian tribes about Lake Hyre, Oodna- 
datta, Alton Downs, and Innamincka, and thence southerly 
over all the intervening country to Port Lincoln and Mount 
Gambier, are divided into two phratries—the men of each 
phratry marrying the women ofthe opposite one. In some 
districts these two phratry names are Kurogity and 
«©The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines,” (Adelaide, 
1880). 
* «The Australian Race,” 111., pp. 462 — 465. 
