Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical

by R. G. Latham

English.	Forest.	Utanata.
bow	myay	amuré.
I	iya	area.
slave	omini	manoki.
tree	kaibus	kai, wood.
water	war	warani, Malay?
yes	io	aroa.

Again:

English.	Utanata.	Lobo.
basin	pigani	bingau.
cheeks	awamu	wafiwiriongo.
death	namata	namata, Malay?
drink (to)	nemuka	makinu, and also eat.
evening	jauw aroă	urwawa.
eyes	mamé	matatongo, Malay?
feathers	wiegu	wo eru, Malay?
great	napitteki	nabitteki.
hands	toe mare	nimango uta, Malay?
hog	oe	booi, Malay?
handsome	nata	nangewie.
here	aré	inairi.
head	oepauw	umun.
iron	puruti	wurusesi.
knife	tai	toeri, for chopping.
lemons	munda	munda.
little	mimiti	netie.
long	marawas	marawas.
lay (to)	aïkai	koekeimanse.
man	marowane	marowane.
mouth	irie	oriengo.
noon	kameti aroa	oertoto, evening.
plate	pigani	piring.
rain	komak	komak.
river	warari napeteki	walar nabetik, water great.
rope	warauw	waras.
sago	kinani	kakana.
slave	manoki	mooi.
seek	matigati	namitik.
speak (to)	iwari	iwar.
take away (to)	namatorani	motara.

New Ireland.—As far as we have vocabularies for evidence, the language of New Ireland is one.

English.	Port Praslin.	Carteret Bay.	Dalrymple.
beard	katissendi	kambissek	incambesser, M.
arms		limak	pongliman, M.
bananas		ounn	tachouner, M.
belly	balang		bala.
fish		siss	hissou.
fire	bia		eef.
forehead	poussou nourou		posson arong.
buttocks	kambali	kabalik
back	ptarou	tarouk
eye	matal	matak	M.
ear	pala tignai	pralenhek
foot	pekendi	balankeki	kekeign.
finger	lima	oulimak	cateling liman.
hair	epiou	iouk	M.
iron	siner	siner
neck	kindouroua	kondarouak
nose	mboussou	kamboussouk	nisson.
shoulder	kamliman	kamlima
tooth	ninissai	insik	ysangh, M.
water	moloum	maloum	M.
moon	calaug		kalan.

For the affinities of the dialects of Moa, Moses Island, Cocos Island, Hoorn Island, to those of New Ireland, see Dalrymple's Island Voyages, ad fin. That the differences in Manicolo are those of dialect, may be seen from Gaimard's Vocabulary.

Australia.—That the Australian languages are one, at least in the way that the Indo-European languages are one, is likely from hence-forward to be admitted. Captain Grey's statement upon the subject is to be found in his work upon Australia. His special proof of the unity of the Australian language is amongst the imprinted papers of the Geographical Society. The opinions of Threlkeld and Teichelmann go the same way. The author's own statements are as follows:—

(1.) For the whole round of the coast there is, generally speaking, no vocabulary of sufficient length that, in some word or other, does not coincide with the vocabulary of the nearest point, the language of which is known to us. If it fail to do this it agrees with some of the remoter dialects. Flinder's Carpentarian, compared with the two vocabularies of the Endeavour River, has seventeen words in common. Of these, three (perhaps) four coincide. Eye, meal, C.; meul, E. R.: hair, marra, C.; morye, E. R.: fingers, mingel, C.; mungal bah, E. R.: breast, gummur, C.: coyor, E. R.

Endeavour River.—Two vocabularies.—Compared with the vocabularies generally of Port Jackson, and the parts south and east of Port Jackson:—Eye, meul, E. R.; milla, L. C.: nose, emurda, E. R.; morro, L. C.: ears, mulkah, E. R.; moko, P. Macquarie: hair, morye, E. R.; mundah, B. B.: breast, coyor, E. R.; kowul, P. J.: fingers, mungal bah, E. R.; maranga, B. B.: elbow, yeerwe, E. R.; yongra, Menero Downs: nails, kotke, E. R.; karungun? P. J.: beard, wollar, E. R.; wato, Jervis's Bay; wollak, Port Maquarie. The number of words submitted to comparison was twenty-two.

Menero Downs (Lhotsky), and Adelaide (G. W. Earl).—Thirteen words in common, whereof two coincide.