LANGUAGE.
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| English. |
Native.
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| Cut a canoe to get meat for all | (G. L.) | Panda gnin oura gri wur iatanga. |
| Cut you for all canoe meat. | ||
| Go | (G. L.) | Pangan yanning. |
| I go. | ||
| (G. L.) | Yan imba. | |
| Go you. | ||
| (G. L.) | Yan ga nal. | |
| Go we two. | ||
| (M.) | Paddy wappa. | |
| Go I. | ||
| (M.) | Paddy waimba. | |
| Go you. | ||
| (M.) | Paddy urta. | |
| Go we. | ||
| (M.) | Paddy walie. | |
| Go we two. | ||
| Where is my canoe stick? | (G. L.) | Wunman gendook muck gnetal? |
| Where is canoe stick of mine? | ||
| Bathe | (M.) | Yakake wappa. |
| Bathe I. | ||
| (M.) | Yakake waimba. | |
| Bathe you. | ||
| (M.) | Yaton yakake wanna. | |
| He bathes. | ||
| (M.) | Yakake walie. | |
| Bathe we two. | ||
| I go to another country or place | (M.) | Paddy wappa karo kara. |
| Go I another country (or place). | ||
| What do you think? &c. | (M.) | Minna uring nindo? |
| What think you? | ||
| (M.) | Uring ato. | |
| Think I. | ||
| (M.) | Yaton uri wanna. | |
| He thinks. | ||
| You do not speak | (M.) | Illa parel go rimba. |
| Do not speak you. | ||
| Who stole my bread? | (M.) | Winjea karnmia mani? |
| Who stole bread my? | ||
| I speak not to you | (M.) | Illa kulpera notama. |
| Not speak I to you. | ||
| You spoke to me | (M.) | Nindo kulpera gnana. |
| You spoke to me. | ||
Mr. Bulmer adds this note:—"I thought it best to give you specimens of both languages—Gippsland and Murray—so that you might see the construction of both. I think we may safely venture to say that the construction of all the native languages, which must have originally come from the same source, is the same. One thing I have observed with regard to the language—it is a double language. They have two words to express everything. This is very convenient to a people who have occasionally to disuse a word, on the death of a friend whose name sounded like the word they lay aside. For instance, when
