NOTES ON SOME NATIVE DIALECTS OF VICTORIA. DAT 
although differing more or less in vocabulary. It is thought 
that a few examples in the different parts of speech will be 
sufficient. Le means “‘no”’ and wurru “‘lip.”’ 
NOUNS. 
Number and gender will be passed over. 
Case.—Nominative—Kuli, a man. Duan, a squirrel. 
Kuyun, a spear. Kulkurn, a boy. 
Causative—Kulingu kulkurn tyilpin, a man beat a boy. 
Instrumental—Kulingu duan bandyin kuyunu, a man 
killed a squirrel with a spear. 
Possessive—The proprietor and the property are both 
declined. Kulinga kuyunuk, a man’s spear. 
ADJECTIVES. 
These are declined like the nouns for number and case. 
PRONOUNS. 
Pronouns have four numbers—singular, dual, trial, and 
plural. There are two forms to express, respectively, ‘‘ we,”’ 
‘“‘ours,’’ ‘“‘us’’—the one including both the speaker and the 
person spoken to, and the other excluding the latter. 
The persons of the singular number of the nominative 
pronouns are as follow :— 
(1st Person I, Wangek | 
Singular < 2nd _,, Thou, Wangin 
ard *. 4; He, Wanyuk 
The other numbers resemble the Tyattyalli. The trial 
is formed by adding kullik to the plural, the same as in 
that language. The demonstratives and interrogatives 
are omitted. 
VERBS. 
In the following conjugation the present tense is given 
in full; but in the past and future the singular only is 
taken :— 
