Australian dialects bears a marked resemblance to the Dravidian, and especially to Telugu. Telugu forms its plurals by suffixing lu to the singular; the Australian dialects by a similar addition of lu, li, dlu, dli, & c. In this particular some of the dialects of the North-Eastern Frontier of India exhibit also an agreement with Telugu-e.g., compare Dhimal nƒthou, with nyel, you. In the Australian dialects I find the following plurals and duals of the pronoun of the first person -we, or we two, ngalu, ngadlu, ngadli, ngalata, & c. Compare this with the manner in which the Telugu forms its plural -e.g., vƒ—d’u, he, vƒ—dlu, they; and even with the Tamil plural exclusive of the pronoun of the first person -e.g., nƒn, I, nƒŒga‰, we.

     “The resemblance between the Australian pronouns of the second person, both singular and plural, and those of the Dravidian languages is more distinct and special, and is apparent, not only in the suffixes, but in the pronominal base itself. The normal forms of these pronouns in Dravidian languages are -singular, n…n, plural, n…m. The personality resides in the crude root ni…, thou, which is the same in both numbers, with the addition of a singular formative (ni‹, thou) and a pluralising formative m (ni…-m, thous or you). In some cases the pluralising particle m has been displaced, and r, which I regard as properly sign of the epicene plural of the third person, has been substituted for it -e.g., n…r, you (in Telugu m…ru). This abnormal form n…r is most used as a nominative, the older and more regular n…m retains its place in the compounds. Whilst i is the vowel which is almost invariably found in the singular of the pronoun of the second person, it is found that in the plural i often gives places to u as in the classical Tamil numa, your, and the Brahui num, you. It is to be noticed also that the modern Canarese has softened n…m into n…vu or n…wu, in the nominative. It is singular, in whatever way it may be accounted for, that in each of the particulars now mentioned the Australian dialects resemble the Dravidian. See the following comparative view under the Australian head I class the dual together with the plural, as being substantially the same.