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ngeane kanungo warawara yanani.
winungulla: kamil ngaia yal goalda; giru ngaia goalda. immanuel
ngirribatai yarine, gunagulladi taongo. kanungo giwir kagil ginyi:
immanuel ngandil murruba; immanuel baluni, giwir moron gigigo.
Yeladu baiame goalda; "ngindai, kanungo giwir, kurria kagil gigle,
berudi warraia; ngeane murru ngurrile. kamil ngaia yili gigla. murruba
immanuel baluni." yeladu immanuel goalda: "taiyanunga ngununda
kanungo ngindai inggil, ila ngaia ngindai tubbiamulle."
inda taiyanunga immanuelgo.
giwir nguddelona littraga: bain dinna tunggor, ngurribu bain ge bain;
kamil yanelina. paul, barnaba ellibu, aro yanani. paul goaldone; baindul
ngerma winungailone. paul kaia ngummildone, kakuldone, "waria
ngurriba dinnaga." tungordul parine, yanani ellibu.
burulabu giwir ngummi, goe "ngipai!" kakuldone "baiame bular yarine
yealokwai giwir." paul, barnaba ellibu, bunnangunne, kakuldone,

"kurria! kamil ngeane baiame; ngeane giwir yealokwai ngindai. ngeane
guiye murru ngurringillone. ngeane murru goalda burulabu; kurria
ngindai yealo kagil gigle: berudi warraia, ngummilla baiame moron.
baiame gir gunagulla, taon, burul kolle, kanungo minnaminnabul
gimobi. baiame yalwunga baiame."
Kamilaroi is the language spoken by the aborigines along the Namoi
River, on part of the Bundarra and Balun, and 200 miles of the Barwan
(or Darling); also on Liverpool Plains, and about the head of the
Hunter.
The writer believes that any one who carefully reads through this Key,
_especially the first 2 pages_, will be able to pronounce the foregoing
Kamilaroi sentences, and teach the aborigines to read them. Many of
the aborigines, especially the young men, are very quick at learning to
read.
It is very important that the rule of naming the letters according to their
pronunciation in words should be attended to, as it will remove great
difficulties from the way of beginners. How could an ignorant person
guess that the letter called "double you" had the sound w in wit? or that
"aitch" was merely a hard breathing?
The Christian into whose hands this little book may come, and who has
any aborigines speaking kamilaroi near, is earnestly requested to
consider, whether it is not worth a patient and prayerful effort to teach
them to read those precious saving truths which are dimly and scantily,
but in some measure really, expressed in these brief sentences.
KEY
To the foregoing "Kamilaroi speech."
RULES OF PRONUNCIATION.
Pronounce a as a in father " a as a in mat " e as ey in obey " e as e in net
" i as i in marine " i as i in it " o as o in bone " o as o in on " u as oo in
moon " u as u in bun " ai as i in wine " ao as ow in how " oi as oi in

noise " g always as in go " ng as ng in ring.
In English we use the sound ng or ng only at the end of a syllable; its
frequent occurrence at the beginning of a syllable in Kamilaroi is
therefore a slight, but only a slight difficulty. It is only necessary to use
precisely the same consonant sound which we have in ring, sing,
&c., with a vowel after and not before it.
N.B. Name the letters as they are pronounced; that is, call g ge (as in
get), h he, ng eng, r re, w we, and y ye. Thus the name will guide the
learner to the proper sound in spelling.
The first four words on page 3 are names of men; the next four words
are names of women; then, as follow, each line hereunder containing
the English words for the correspond line of Kamilaroi:--
sun, moon, earth, fire, pennyroyal (herb). man, woman, boy, girl. child,
father, mother. son, daughter. brother, sister.
God verily sun, moon, stars, earth also made.
God always is good; God everything sees, everything hears.
God verily every hill, plain, watercourse, tree, grass, beran (a herb),
pennyroyal made.
God verily horse, dog, kangaroo, opossum, goanna, emu, native
companion, cockatoo, swallow, pelican, parrot, eagle, fish,
brown-snake, deadly-black-snake, flies, mosquitoes, all animals made.
God verily man made; first man Adam. God said, "Not good man alone
for to dwell; I for man woman will make." Then God woman made;
first woman Eve; Eve wife of Adam.
Adam is father of the blackfellows, father of the whites, father of all:
Eve the mother of blacks, mother of whites, mother of all.
Adam, Eve also, astray went. All men all women astray went, all bad
became. God angry became, he said "All men, all women, astray are

gone, all bad have become. I them dead will smite." Immanuel, Son of
God, said "Not so. Not thou them smite; Thou me smite, I will die; man,
woman, alive for to be."
Immanuel with us God: he God man became. Good is Immanuel; not
another is good like him.
Long ago Immanuel to earth came, man he became. He verily many