THE WOMBAT. 13 
Wales, as ko-ba, kin-ba, um-ba! here, as before, it merely 
strengthens the preceding syllable. In the island of New Britain 
of Northern Melanesia, da is an independent word, and means 
‘there ’ (demonstrative) ; so also ab, abi (demonstrative) of 
Torres’ Straits. 
From these instances, I think I am justified in considering 
bang, that is, ba nasalised, as a prepositive and strengthening par- 
ticle in the Woddowro pronouns. In that use, it has analogies in the 
a, at, ko (prepositive) of the Melanesian examples on page 9. 
That use is also supported by the Hebrew pronoun an-oki, ‘ I,’ 
where the ofi is the pronoun, and an is a prefixed particle, as is 
also the Fgyptian an and ant in the pronouns of the first and 
second persons. And in the New Hebrides it seems likely that 
the original form of these two pronouns jn Efatese were na-ku, ‘I, 
and an-ka, ‘ thou,’ 
As to the final & of the Woddowro pronouns, it is merely a 
termination and has no significance. It is yery common in Narr- 
inyeri words of South Australia ; elsewhere on this continent it 
is ka, ga, nga. In fact, in Nos. 6 and 12 of the Woddowro pro- 
nouns, ng takes its place, 
From all this it appears that the syllables between bang and 
the final & are the real body of the pronouns which we have now 
to consider. These I will refer to by the numerals attached to the 
Woddowro pronouns as given on a previous page. 
(1) The first pronoun in most of the Australian dialects is 
nga, ngai; but, in many places, ngi and sometimes nge is the root- 
form that is used. Ngi-k is therefore a regular word to mean ‘J.’ * 
*Many of our tribal vocabularies were compiled by men who followed 
the English sound of the letter ¢ in writing down the Words. I therefore 
think that often in them ngi is intended to represent the sound of ngai, 
(2) Ngin, ina variety of forms, is invariably the ‘pronoun 
‘thou.’ I therefore conclude that Mr Tuckfield’s bang-en ought 
to be bang-ngin. 
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(3) La, da are common demonstratiyes ; as (in Awabakal) 
emmo-umba ta * mine that (is) ’ ta-ra, ‘ they {are)’. Itis also a 
very common suffix in place names, as in Parra-ma-ta, And in 
many languages, the dental d is strengthened by prefixing to it the 
sound of n; hence nda-k in the third pronoun may sound like 
nuk. 
(4) Bangul has the b of bula, « two,’ elided. 
(5) The bula is here manifest. 
(6) Through the influence of ‘the nasal of bang, the t of the 
demonstiative ta, da is dropped. 
