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An article is used extensively ; it precedes nouns and adjectives, and stands be-

tween the substantive and the verb. It has a masculine and feminine gender,

the bird (1) flies (2), tsttsipé! (1) té sz'usek: (2)
my grandmother, — tst hikia'tstsu.

It seems that only females of men and animals have the feminine article.
The numerals have various classes :

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| Animals, : é
— Men fathoms, ee Box, vessel epee
blankets 3
| ——$———— a nnn — ———— - -| — — ———~
1 | nonmat é sma'o | smau'aag man! atl sma! ott
2 | nutino'sau | tlnds | tlrosd’ag = thua'satl tInd'sutl
3 | naasmo'saw | asmo'’s | asmosa'agq | asmo'sutl asmo'sutl
4 | numd'sar | mos — mosd'ag =| —-mo'sutl mo' sutl
5 nutsé'roa ts’éa | ts éad'aqg ts’é’eutl
4 TAL | Lat | atl al yy al ;
6 nutgo'tlau tgotl | tqotlia'ag | tqo'tlutl
Numeral adverbs are formed by the suffix —anz'msts.
Personal pronouns are: I, ens. we, xHmitl.
thou, 720. ye, tldptl.
he, (ain. they, ?ats.
The possessive pronouns are twofold :
my, enstl. our, Hnitl,
thy, indtl. your, ¢/’dptl.
his, ¢’azntl. their, (?)
my house, enstl ti sotl.
The second form is suffixed :
my—ts, our—itl.
thy—no. your—apa.
his—s. their—auts.

my grandson, stlémtsts.
thy grandson, stlémtsno.

When the noun is a femine the possessive pronoun takes the ending—untsx:

my granddaughter, stlémtstsutsx.
thy granddaughter, stlémtsnoutsu.

The intransitive verb is inflected either by means of suffixes or by joining the
pronoun to it by the article. A third form originates by repetition of the pronoun.

to go, tl’ ap.

1st person sing. tl’apsts ens ti tlap tl’apsts ti ens.

2nd” 5; 45 tVapnuts ind ti tVap tVapnuts ti ind.
Sidi iiss . tl aps tain ti tap tlaps ti nt’ain.

1st war pur: tlapitl umitl ua tap tVapitl ua umitl
ONG cisscy ‘3 tl apapa tl’optl ua tVap tlapapa ua tloptl.
SECs of bes . tl’apauts tats ua tap tlapauts ua ats.

The pronominal object is incorporated in the pronoun. My collection is, how-
ever, not sufficient to give the transitive verb in a paradigmatic form.
Snanaimue.

The noun has no separate forms for singular and plural. It has a distributive
formed by reduplication, epenthesis, or divresis.

Distributive. Diminutive.
deer, 3mé'yz¢. sEmée' Yes.
deer, hd'pet. hala'pxt. ae

mink, tcitct'ek'an. teiletct'ck-an. ie