B 505: Lecture on the Aborigines of Australia and papers on Wirradhurrei dialect, 1837-1840

the most common and essential relations, new line A strange peculiariaty in this language is the existence of the Nominatives - The simple Nominative or Nominative - Declarative, corresponding to the questions "Who or what is it?" and the other, the nominative active when the thing or person spoken of is considered as an agent; this answering the question, "who or what does it?" - The Genitive & Dative are [words crossed out] [words crossed out] the same: the accusative is like the simple nominative, the Vocative has [words crossed out] [word crossed out] the exclamatory [word crossed out] word "ya" put before the simple Nominative form; or also by the termination & then it is like the Genitive. To give a distinct signification to the uncommon or peculiar cases of the noun & to avoid speaking of 1st 2nd &c. ablative, [undecipherable] apelatives have been adopted so far as practicable such as Locative (in, on, at) Locomotive, (from, whence), Conjunctive (with accompanying, conjointly.) Instrumentative

Instrumentive (with, through, by means of The following is a Table of the Terminations of the principal cases The case-endings and their meanings are shown in the following table 1. N.A. Simple forms 2. N.A. du - -dgu, -gu, -lu, -ru The agent for [undecipherable] 3. Gen. & Dat. of, to, for, towards [undecipherable] 4. Acc: The same as the N.A> The direct object 5. Vocative.Prefixes ya to nom 1. O 8. Locative, -da - dga, -ga, -la - -ra in, on, at [undecipherable] 6. Locomotive -di, -dgi, -li, -ri From, where to 7. Conj: -durai Together with Inst. -durada By means of

[words deleted] The examples below will show [words deleted] that the [word deleted] variations in declension arise from [words deleted [words deleted] assimilation run on Thus when "r" or "l" is the last sound of [words deleted] the word these letters assimilate the initial consonant [words crossed out] as the post fix [words crossed out] [words crossed out] run on If the vowel of the last syllable is i, either ending the word or syllable or followed by "n", euphony adds the sound of 'y' to [words crossed out] the d of the post fi: thus [words crossed out] for dya, dyu, dyi appear instead of du,da, di. When i is ejected, this rule is not appliable. The ejection of "i" preceeded by "a" takes place in the Nomin A. & in Locative

These Examples to be arranged as on page but [indecipherable] I Example

II Example