LANGUAGE OF THE BUNGANDITY TRIBE, S.A. 63 
reaching thence easterly into Queensland, ‘and also westerly 
into West Australia. 3 
ORTHOGRAPHY. 
Highteen letters of the English alphabet are sounded, 
comprising thirteen consonants—b, d, g, h, k,l, m,n, p, vr’ 
t, w, y—and five vowels—a, e, 1, 0, u. 
The system of orthoepy adopted is that recommended by 
the circular issued by the Royal Geographical Society, 
London, with the following qualifications :— | 
It is frequently difficult to distinguish between the short 
sound ofaandu. A thick sound of iis occasionally met 
with, which closely resembles the short sound of u or a. 
As far as possible, vowels are unmarked, but in some 
instances the long sound of a, e, and wu are indicated thus, 
a, é,uU. In a few cases the short sound of u has been 
marked thus, t 
G is hard in all cases. R has a rough, trilled sound, aS 
in hurrah! W always commences a syllable or word. 
Ng at the beginning of a word or syllable as ngu in ngu-ro, 
thou, has a peculiar sound, which can be got very closely 
by putting wu before it, as ungu’, and then articulating it as 
one syllable. At the end of a syllable it has substantially 
the sound of ng in “ sing.”’ 
The sound of the Spanish n is frequent; at the beginning 
of a word or syllable I have given it as ny, but when ter- 
Minating a word the Spanish letter is used. Y at the 
beginning of a word or syllable has its ordinary consonant 
value. 
1 See my “ Yualeai-and Pikumbil Languages,’—Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S. 
Wales, Vol. xxxvi., pp. 137-145. Also my “Murawarri Language,”’— 
Queensland Geographical Journal, Vol. xvii1., pp. 52-68. These three 
languages are spoken in Queensland. 
