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tend to facilitate the learning of another. A strong 
illustration of this occurs at Moorunde, where three 
dialects meet, varying so much from each other, 
that no native of any one of the three tribes, can 
understand a single word spoken by the other two, 
except he has learnt their languages as those of a 
foreign people. 
The dialects I allude to, are first that of the 
Murray river, called the “ Aiawong” and which 
is spoken with slight variations from the Lake 
Alexandrina, up to the Darling. Secondly, the 
“ Boraipar,” or language of the natives to the east 
of the Murray, and which appears in its variations 
to branch into that of the south-eastern tribes ; and 
thirdly, the 4 4 Yak-kumban,” or dialect spoken by 
the natives, inhabiting the country to the north-west 
and north of the Murray, and which extends along 
the range of hills from Mount Bryant to the Dar- 
ling near Laidley’s Ponds, and forms in its varia- 
tions the language of the Darling itself ; these tribes 
meet upon the Murray at Moorunde, and can only 
communicate to each other by the intervention of 
the Aiawong dialect, which the north-western or 
south-eastern tribes are compelled to learn, before 
they can either communicate with each other, or 
with the natives of the Murray, at their common 
point of rendezvous. 
To the tables already given, it is thought desi- 
rable to add two of the dialects, spoken in the 
country to the eastward of South Australia, and 
which were published for the House of Commons, 
with other papers on the Aborigines, in August 1844. 
