Item 02: Kamilaroi, and other Australian Languages, by Rev. William Ridley, 2nd ed. (Sydney, 1875) - Page 133

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of New South Wales for 1843. On the 5th January 1843 Mr. Parker wrote thus :— “I have found not less than eight different dialects prevalent among this people, viz. : the Witouro in the neighbourhood of Buninyong and Barumbeel, the Jajowrong in the country between the Loddon and the Pyrenees, the Knenknenwurro in the vicinity of the Pyrenees and to the westward, the Burapper among the Mallegoondeet, the Taoungurong among the petty tribes north of Mount Alexander and on the Campaspe, the Nindakkedowrong to the west- ward of the Pyrenees, and at least two other dialects, respecting which I do not at present possess definite information, among the Bolokepar and the tribes of the Wimmera. The Jajowrong is generally understood by the majority of the Aborigines frequenting the stations. The Knenknenwurro prevails among the tribes between the Pyrenees and the Grampians. The Burapper is, I have reason to believe, spoken on some parts of the Murray." 

The district thus referred to comprises about one-fourth of the Colony of Victoria, toward the north and west boundaries. Mr. Parker gives specimens of five of these dialects. Of the words he gives, forty are subjoined in the second Table for comparison with those in the first Table. Their sound is represented by the mode of spelling used throughout this work.