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134 COMPARISON OF WORDS IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES.
Turrubul. Dippil. Turuwul. Wodi-wodi.
1...kunnar ... kalim ... wākūl ... mittuƞ
2...būd°lā ... būlār ... wākūlwākūl* ... būlār
3...muddan ... boppa or kūrbunta ... dūgūl ... wōwulli
*Wakulwakul (one-one) is evidently a substitute for the forgotten numeral of the extinct Sydney tribe. And as the next language on the south has "bular," and all to the north and north-west the same root, it is almost certain that the former inhabitants of Port Jackson had also the same root for two. At Portland Bay, on the south coast of Victoria, two hundred and fifty miles west of Melbourne, I found "bular" used for two, while the other numerals were words I had never heard before.
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