wt^, Ijut H iiiuoli better comparison may be made between ' eunei ' 

 ami ' n,i,'Hnna" tlie common Australian form ior vif. Other verbal 



not peculiar to these two ciahKes. It is dirterejit with tlie pro- 

 nomina] stems just considered, for in both cases they are distin- 



language wliich teaches a nation to say 'I' and 'thou' must be 

 one of its \ery early and mo&t influential pcdagoi^ues. !Mr. Cald- 

 well further >,hows agreement between Dravidian and Australian 

 in tlie following pai,-ticularh :* the use of post-positions (a feature 

 howe\cr on w hich stress should not be laidas itwas very pronounced 

 in TasniMnian), the use of two forms of the lirst person plund, one 

 imlusiveof the party addressed the otlier exclu.-,i%e (a feature also 

 of South Sea • I sland languages), tlic formation of incppti\ e caus,iti\ e 

 ;iu(l reflexive verbs by the addition of certain syllables to the loot, 

 ■ind -fenerally the agglutimitive structure of words and the position 



Sionietimes appended to the inflection or natural i,'eniti\e as an 



is formed optionally, the e([uivaletit form 'navolJca unii'lju'i, 



Queensland dialect, and various foi-ms in ' yuck occurring ic 

 Victoria and elsewhere. 



The Dravidian languages! Juv destitute of any common term for 

 brother, sister, aunt,' etc., and use instead a set of terms wliich 

 tombine the idea of relationship with that of age, >\y., elder brother, 

 younger brothei-, and so forth. 'J^his applies generally to Aus- 

 tralian speeclj. "In the Dravidian languaires the second person 

 singular imperative is generally ideuti.-al with the toot or themo 

 of the ^erb, this is so freciuently tlie case that it may be rcg/irdwl 

 as a characteristic rule of tlie language.',' The same may be ^aul 

 of some at least of the Australian dialects. Compare Dravulmn 

 'vara ' to come imperative ' va' with Kabi (Queensland) ' baman 

 ^o rohie imperative 'ba.' Several years ago I wrote of the verb m 

 tliis dialect " the simplest part is the imperative which commonly 

 consists of oi\e syllable and very rarely exceeds two." '' Tt is a 

 '■'^markable feature of the Dravidian languages tliat they have no 



* Cald^vell, Dravidian Gramui.r.', 1- oA, + j.. KT ; Iv '-'"' . !'• ^'-- 



