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To give some idea of the sound of the language I
will repeat two specimens - the first a
dialogue between two savage rivals in the
Dippil language, taken down from the lips of
a man who spent 13 years among them; -
the other a touching narrative of an event with
which you are all familiar, in the Kamilaroi.
First imagine two sable disputants meeting in
the Bush; one accosts the other in these words:-
First Bundar soliloquizing says-
"Kawundos ngunungi yemar yemar Kurraminarain"
Kawundow my axe has stolen
"Undara nulla wurang aieri. Unda wunna"
He has a bad heart to me. He when
"bunna bungai ngutta unda bunna yemago."
he comes back, I him will scold.
"Kawundas ngunungai yemaryemar mingalu"
Kawundow my axe wherefore
"inda dummain? Ngai benung gir"
You take? I didn't take it.