The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales

The work presents a concise grammatical sketch of the Wiradyuri tongue and brief outlines of adjacent Burreba-burreba and Ngunawal dialects, describing phonetic conventions and an orthography adapted to represent sounds such as initial ng, dh/nh, ty/dy, and nasal ñ. It catalogs parts of speech, including absence of articles, three-number distinction (singular, dual, plural), detailed case morphology (nominative, agentive, genitive, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative), pronoun contrasts with exclusive dual/plural forms, and adjective agreement. Field-collected vocabularies and examples illustrate usage and euphonic suffix alternations across affixes.