G2) - R. H. MATHEWS. 
Kamaty, in others Matturri and Kirraru, in others they 
are Kulpirro and Thinnawa, and again in others Kukudyiba 
and Kuchibinga. For particulars of these systems of inter- | 
marriage, and the laws regulating the descent of the off- 
spring, the reader is referred to an article I communicated 
to the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, 
U.S.A., in 1900.’ The boundaries which separate the tribes 
who practise circumcision, and splitting the male urethra, 
from those tribes among whom neither custom is in force,, 
is described in the article referred to, and delineated upon 
an accompanying map of South Australia. 
Within the geographic limits mentioned in the preceding 
paragraph, the grammatical structure of the native tongues 
in its fundamental principles closely resembles that of the 
Bungandity language. From enquiries I have made it is 
found that the cases of nouns and their qualifying adjectives 
are declined by similar postfixes. That in all parts of 
speech subject to inflection, there is an inclusive and 
exclusive form of the first person in the dual and plural 
numbers. An abbreviated form of the pronoun is affixed 
to the root of the verb to indicate number and person. In 
the genitive case of nouns the property and the owner are 
both inflected. 
Friends who have visited Alice Springs and Arltunga 
during the last couple of years, to whom I had previously. 
submitted a number of questions for investigation, inform 
. me that the double form in the dual and plural of the first 
person, to include or exclude the party addressed, is per- 
sistent in all the languages of the native tribes from Alice ue 
Springs along the overland telegraph line to Port Darwin, 
1 « Divisions of the South Australian Aborigines,’’—Proc. Amer. Philos. ’ 
Soc., Vol. xxx1rx., pp. 78 - 98, with map of South Australia, It may be — 
mentioned here that I was the first author to discover and report the 
existence of the phratries Kulpirro and Thinnawa, and also oe 
and Kuchibinga above referred to. 
