ETHiroLOGY OF THE INUO-PACIFIC ISLAND!, 



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The DraTirian nasal definitive andSrd pronoun ia also Australian, 

 and in some languages it is the unit. Thus niu, ngi, no, are forma 

 of the 3rd pronoun in Kamilarai (plioneticaEy varied by the sexual 

 and directive poatfixes), and ugiu, guin, nga, ai'O forma of the same 

 root in "Wiradurei, the former language possessing also the lahial 

 3rd pronoun, in fern., dual and plural forms. In the Wiradnrei 

 ngun-bai, 1, ngun is the nasal 3rd pronoun, and, what is mterestin^ 

 to remark in reference to the possessive form of the Dravirian 

 numerals, it is not the uominative gum or ngiti but the poss. gung. 

 The second element of the compound, bai, is probably a contrac- 

 tion of the labial def. wliich appears in the form bari in the 3rd 

 person of the imperative. Ba, wa, bala are also used as tlie asser- 

 tive absolute. In Kowrarega as m "Wimdiu-ei the nasal def is 

 found in some fonns of the 3rd pron. and the kbial in others ; 

 im-du " he," uBrdu " she," pa-fe " they-;«?o 



The Car Nicobar hong, hean, Sj'mang ne, Bomeon nib, indi, 

 auiij enah, Philipine una, ona, uon, enot, Millejuan, New Caledo- 

 nian nai, nait, Enib ne-tat, may be Draviro^ Australian, hut it is also 

 exphiiuable as a common insular definitive (identical with the 

 Di-aviriau) applied to tlie expression of the unit. 



The liquid definitive found as a postfix in Dravirian as in 

 Seytbic, does not appear to occur in the known Australian languages 

 as the 3rd pronoun, unless it ho identical with the nasal. In many 

 of these languages 1, ris a dual and n a plural postfix in pronoims. 

 In some vocabularies 1, r occurs as the unit, — lua Gnui'ellean, 

 (whence youa Pinegorine), loea Eafflea Bay, roka Terrutong. But 

 these terms may be contractiona of ngoro, ngolo, kolo &c, with tlie 

 -ka post* The Eafilos Bay 3, OK>-ngarie (1, 2) suggests that 

 lo-ka, 1, was ngoro (as in the Eauularain goro 3, wa-koi 1), and 

 ori-Aa 2, ngon-ka. 



The guttural occurs as an Australian numeral element both in 

 1 and higlier numbers, but it is doubtful if any of the forms are 

 referable to a guttural definitive. The naso-guttural 3rd pronoun 

 of Wiradiurei, ngin, takes the form guin, and, as the unit, nguu, 

 ngnng, — apparently identical with the possessive gung. The 

 West Australian gyn, .keyen, 1, resemble it, and the terms in 

 other languages that have ng, g and k may be also variations of 

 the same root. The Kamilarai ngoro (in 3) and kol (in 1) appear 



