66 R. H. MATHEWS. 
Another way of expressing ownership of two or more 
articles is to annex the suffix of number to the name of the 
thing possessed, and then use the possessive pronoun, as 
Galara ngatthowat, dogstwo mine. Galaban ngatthowat, 
_ dogs several mine, and so on. ‘The accusative is the same 
as the nominative. The other cases are omitted in this 
paper. | 
ADJECTIVES. 
Adjectives are placed after the nouns they qualify, and 
are similarly declined for number and case. They are com- 
pared by making two positive statements, such as, “‘ this 
is large—that is small.” 
There are euphonic modifications of the suffixes in the 
declension of all the cases of nouns, and also of the qualify- 
ing adjectives, depending upon the termination of the word 
declined. Occasionally the suffix of the noun is left out— 
at other times that of the adjective—being regulated by 
the euphony of the expression. Certain adjectives, when 
used predicatively, admit of inflection as intransitive verbs. 
PRONOUNS. 7 
Pronouns have number person and case as in the follow- 
ing table. There are inclusive and exclusive forms for the 
dual, trial and plural of the third person, as shown in the 
table below. The trial forms of the pronouns, and also of 
the verbs, are obtained by adding the word wawung to the 
plural, in the same way that baiap and kullik are employed 
in other languages reported by me last year.' 
With the exception of a few remarks by myself,? no pre- 
vious author has discovered the existence of the trial 
number in any part of speech in the languages of South 
Australia. 
1«The Aboriginal Languages of Victoria,”—Journ. Roy. Soc., N. S. 
Wales, xxxvi., p. 74. 
<The Wuttyubullak Language,’—Queensland akan J ou 
XVIII., p. 61. 
