NOTES ON SOME NATIVE DIALECTS OF VICTORIA. 249 
THE BUIBATYALLI DIALECT. 
The Buibatyalli is spoken about Hopetoun and Lake 
Hindmarsh, in the north-west of Victoria. It is a dialect 
of the Tyattyalli, and the leading elements only will be 
touched upon. 
NOUNS. 
Nouns have the singular, dual, trial and plural, which 
are expressed by words meaning two, three, or several 
placed after the noun. 
Gender—Wutyu, a man. Laiuruk,a woman. The sex 
of animals is shown by adding words signifying ‘“‘male”’ and 
**female.”’ 
Case is generally the same asin the Tyattyalli, but with 
differences in the suffixes, as in the following few short 
examples. 
Causative—Wutyulu gal burdin, a man a dog beat. 
Genitive—There is a double form in this case, one for 
the possessor and another for the possessed :—Wutyugity 
kirramuk, a man’s shield. 
The name of every object over which one can exercise 
ownership may be inflected for person and number, as 
Kirramik, my shield. Kirramanguruk, our (plural) shield, 
and so on. 
Adjectives are declined like the nouns. 
The pronouns resemble those of the Tyattyalli and 
Léwurru, and will be passed over. There is a double form 
of the first person in all the numbers beyond the singular. 
VERBS. 
A few brief examples will suffice to show their similarity 
in conjugation to neighbouring tongues. 
Present I tell, Kénan 
Past I told, kéinan 
Future Iwill tell, Kéinyan 
Q -Dee. 2, 1903. | 
