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 ��AN AUSTEALIAN LANGUAGE. DECLENSION OF PLACE-NAMES.

��All Nouns, whatever may be their original signification, when used as proper names of places, are of this declension, if they end in a.

��M u 1 u b i n b a, the site of 'Newcastle.' Mulubinba, the name of the place, M. . ..

Mulubinba-koba, any thing belonging to M. .

2 M ulubinb a- k al, a male belonging to Ji" . ..

3 Mulubinba -kali n, a female belonging to ilf. .

Daf. 1 Mulubinba-kako, for M. ., — to remain there 2Mulubinba-kolag, tojf. ., to proceed to Jlf.

Ace. 1 Barun Mulubinb a-kal, them (ma*c.) of Jf. . 2 Barun Mulubinba-kalin, them (fern.) of M. 8 Barun yantin Mulubinba-kal, them all of M.

Voc. Tapallun Mulubinba-kal, alas ! people of M

All. 1 Mulubinba -tin, from, on account of 3/. .

2 Mulubinba-kabirug, from, away from M

3 Mulubinba-koa, by, by way of, through M

4 Mulubinba-kaba, at, on, in M

��Novi Gen.

��Note 1. — To form the Ace. singular or dual here, put their pronouns in the place of barun.

2. — The interrogative pronoun signifying place is w o n t a ? 'where is it?' and this maybe substituted for Mulubinba; the example would then become interrogative ; as, w o n t a k a 1 ? 'belonging to what place?' wontakaba? 'where is it at?' ' at what place is it ?' &c.

DECLENSION OF THE FIRST PERSONAL PRONOUN.

��The cases of the three jjersonal pronouns and the manner of using them are similar to those of the nouns. Thus, for the first pronoun :■ —

Nom. 1. Gato a, I. — This form is used in answer to an inter- rogative of personal agenc}^ ; as, Ganto wiyan? 'Who speaks?' The answer would be g a to a, 'it is I who,' the verb being understood. The next form, bag, would simply declare what I do.

2. Bag, I, — is used in answer to an interrogative of the act ; as, M i n n u g b a 1 1 i n b i ? ' What art thou doing now ?' t at a n b a g, ' I eat ;' ba g must be used, and not the personal-nominative, gato a.

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