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groups around Mooroonde. Thirdly, it appears that 
wherever a change occurs in the name of the tribes 
to which contiguous groups of natives may belong, 
there is a corresponding change in the dialect or 
language spoken ; thus the Narwij-jerook speak a 
dialect called Narwijjong, the Karn-brickolenbola 
tribe the Aiawong dialect, and so on. 
In many of these dialects there appears to be little 
more difference than exists among the counties in 
England. Such is the case up the course of the 
Murray from Lake Alexandrina to the Darling ; and 
such Captain Grey found to be the case throughout 
a great part of Western Australia. In others the 
dialects are so totally unlike one another, that natives, 
meeting upon opposite sides of a river, cannot speak 
to or understand a word of what each other say, 
except through the medium of a third language, 
namely that spoken by the natives of the river itself, 
and which is totally unlike either of the other two. 
This is the case at Moorunde, where three dif- 
ferent dialects meet, the Yakkiimban, or dialect 
spoken by the Paritke tribe, or natives inhabiting 
the scrub to the west and north-west of the Murray. 
The Boralpar or language of the Arkatko tribe, who 
inhabit the scrub to the east of the Murray, and the 
Aiawong or river dialect, extending, with slight 
variations, from the junction of the Murray and 
Lake Alexandrina to the Darling. 
