Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia : spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide / By C.G. Teichelmann ; C.W. Schürmann.

  • Christian Gottlieb Teichelmann
Date:
1840
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Credit: Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the aboriginal language of South Australia : spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide / By C.G. Teichelmann ; C.W. Schürmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dual kavnidla ; medo, dual medurla,; yunga, dual yungataurla and yungatarla ; tinyara, dual tinyarurla and tinyarula. 2.—Though xza is the general termination for the nominative plural, yet it is joined to the singular variably to form the plural ; for instance—sing. tanyara, pl. tenyaranna ; sing. yakkanna, pl- yakkanninna; sing. ngangki, pl. ngangkinna ; sing. meyu, pl. meyunna and meyurna; sing. ngarto, pl. ngartunna ; sing. wak- mako, pl. wakwakurna ; sing. ngaityo, pl. ngaityurna. ' 3.—The termination xna of the genitive singular, and ttya of the genitive plural, occur together with ko; how, or in what in- stances which to apply, remains a matter of further inquiry. 4,—In regard to the termination of the active or ablative case, only that of the singular is without doubt; but the manner of — adding it to the nominative is very variable; for instance—nom. nganght, abl. ngangkidlo; nom. ngarri, abl. ngarriurlo; nom, kaya, abl. kayarlo and kayaurlo; &c. Sometimes merely lo is added... For the dual and plural of this case no termination is known. ADJECTIVES. They are either— 1,—Primitive ; as, marnt, good; mitlta, hard; kurlto, short; parto, think—or, 2.—Derivative ; as,'bukkeana, former, from bukki, formeriy ; zur- labutto, full of anger, from t¢urfa, anger; kuinyunda, morti- ferous, from kutnyo, death ; wongarta, westerly, from wongga, © west ; yurrirka, attentive, from yurre, ear ; turnkitidl, clothed, from turnki, cloth; yangarutanna, unmarried, from yangarra, wife ; nepotinna, solitary, from xepo, neighbour ; &c.—or, 3,—Compound ; as, marngubinna, envious, from marngu, envy, and binna, adult; bakkaburro, unpeeled, from bakka, peel, and burro, still; turnkimarrakka, naked, from turnki, cloth, and marrandi, to take off, pour out; kurrunilta, impudent, from kurro, vertex, and nzta, hard; gadlapurruna, hot, from gadla fire, and purruna, living; &c.—or,
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