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    The Gundungurra Language
    The Gundungurra Language
    The Gundungurra Language
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    The Gundungurra Language

    By R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Gundungurra Language - R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Gundungurra Language, by R. H. Mathews

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      Title: The Gundungurra Language

      Author: R. H. Mathews

      Release Date: June 19, 2007 [EBook #21866]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GUNDUNGURRA LANGUAGE ***

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      THE GUNDUNGURRA LANGUAGE.

      BY R. H. MATHEWS, L.S.

      (Read October 4, 1901.)

      The Dhar′rook and Gun′dungur′ra tribes respectively occupied the from the mouth of the Hawkesbury river to Mount Victoria, and thence southerly to Berrima and Goulburn, New South Wales. On the south and southeast they were joined by the Thurrawal, whose language has the same structure, although differing in vocabulary.

      Besides the verbs and pronouns, many of the nouns, adjectives, prepositions and adverbs are subject to inflection for number and person. Similar inflections have, to some extent, been observed in certain islands of the Pacific Ocean, but have not hitherto been reported in Australia. I have also discovered two forms of the dual and plural of the first personal pronoun, a specialty which has likewise been found in Polynesian and North American dialects. Traces of a double dual were noticed by Mr. Threlkeld at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, and traces of a double plural by Mr. Tuckfield in the Geelong tribe; but the prevalence of both forms of

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