The DiYERi Language. 

 Authority : Mr. Samuel Gason's, The Dieyerie Tribe of Australian 



The Diyeri language is spoken between Cooper's Creek and the 

 north-east shore of Lake Torrens, in South Australia, but not far 

 from the Queensland and New South Wales boundaries. Mr. 

 Gason's vocabulary does not supply much data for arriving at the 

 itructure of sentences, the examples of syntax being unfortunately 



The verb seems to be conjugated very simply and with a suspicious 

 regularity. The language is of a very elementary, compounding 

 character, and in this respect stands midway between the languages 

 of the extreme west and east respectively, being more closely 

 related to the latter, with which my cl.ssiti cation joins it. The 

 personal pronouns and some of the interrogative words unite both 



llaur- '!fr",o/A!,'l^d.o Diyeri, 

 '-ulunni'of Kamiiroi, 'yulaiyu'of Kabi. '-hiu of Lake Macquaiie, 

 and 'lana' of VViradhuri, all reciprocal \e.'ljal signs, the Kabi 

 and West Australian forms seem to give tlie original type as 

 something like ' yulain,' which may be compounded of two pro- 

 nouns 'ngali-ngin' we-thee, or tiie like. Diyeri is rich in deter- 

 minant elements, easily recognizable and separable, and usually 

 but not invariably post-formative. 



Phonic Elements — Vowels. 



e o o (as in English ton) 



binations occur internally !i 

 therefore agrees fairly in ] 

 generally, but is even smool 



