_forehead_ holo ioullo.
_man_ mika meio.
_milk_ awanham ammenhalo.
_tongue_ talen talein.
_hand_ maramale malla.
_nipple_ amgnann amma.
_black_ mourak pouilloul.
_nails_ berenou pere.
(3.) The most isolated of the vocabularies; e. g. the Carpentarian, if
compared with the remaining vocabularies, taken as a whole, has certain
words to be found in different and distant parts of the island.
ENGLISH. CARPENTARIAN.
_eye_ mail milla, L. C.
_nose_ hurroo morro, L. C.
The following is a notice of certain words coinciding, though taken
from dialects far separated:
_lips_ tambamba, Men. D. tamande, G. S. V.
_star_ jingi, ditto tchindai, K. G. S.
_forehead_ ullo, ditto ioullo, G. S. V.
_beard_ yernka, Adel {arnga, }
{nanga, } K. G. S.
_bite_ paiandi, ditto badjeen, ditto.
_fire_ gaadla, ditto kaal, ditto.
_heart_ karlto, ditto koort, ditto.
_sun_ tindo, ditto djaat, ditto.
_tooth_} tia, ditto dowal, ditto.
_edge_ }
_water_ kauwe, ditto kowwin, ditto.
_stone_ pure, ditto boye, ditto.
In the way of grammatical inflection we find indications of the same
unity. We find also differences upon which we should be careful against
laying too much stress. The inflection of the number is an instance of
the difference. In South Australian--_tinyara_, a boy; _tinyarurla_,
two boys; _tinyar-anna_, boys. In Western Australia--_yago_, a woman;
_yago-mun_, women; _goolang_, a child; _goolang-gurrah_, children
(_gurra_, many); _doorda_, a dog; _doorda-goodjal_, two dogs; _doorda
boula_, many dogs (_boula_, many). Here there is a difference
where we generally find agreement, viz. in the inflectional (or
quasi-inflectional) expression of the numbers. The difference, however,
is less real than apparent. The Australian is one of those languages
(so valuable in general philology) where we find inflections in the act
of forming, and that from the agglutination not of affixes, suffixes
and prefixes, but of words. In other terms, inflection is evolving
itself out of composition. The true view then of different forms for
the same idea is not that the inflections are unlike, but that the
quasi-inflectional circumlocutions differ from each other in different
dialects. There is no inflectional parallel between _two men_ in
English and ἀνθρώπω in Greek.
_Van Diemen's Land, South._--For the south of Van Diemen's Land the
language seems radically one. The following is what Cook has in common
with Dentrecasteaux (or La Billardière) and Allan Cunningham.