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Kalispelm.

I give the terms of relationship in this dialect, which is closely related to the
Okana’k én according to Mengarini.

tu'pie, ancestor.

sqaepe, father’s father. hene', father’s mother.
sile’, mother’s father. ch’chiez, mother’s mother.
shusé'e, son. stomchelt, daughter.
A .

k’eus, elder brother. lch’chschée, elder sister.
sinzé, younger brother. lkak’ze, younger sister.

A
smél, father’s brother. ka'ge, mother’ sister.

s’s7’i, mother’s brother.

TERMS USED BY MALE.

Peu, father. skoi, mother.
shokoi, father’s sister.
sgus’mem, sister,

S rother’ :

tonsch, JS b: OF act S \ chile.
\_sister’s

TERMS USED BY FEMALE.

mestm, father. tom, mother.
tikul, father’s sister.
snhusigu, sister.

ae ee at son. sttmeh elt f brother's

; reo ; \ daughter.
sister’s i sister’s = J! me

In Kalispelm we find once more a separate set of terms for indirect relationship
when the intermediate relation is dead:

Ne : ; ;
nluestn, father’s brother. sluelt, brother’s child.

TERMS OF AFFINITY.

1. Husband, viz., nife alive.

ol sgagée, husband’s, wife’s father. izezch, husband’s, wife’s mother.
f sgelui, husband. nognag, wite.
: ee Wee pa akeecs 1 ae husband’s)
} segunemt, \ husband’s f parent’s call wife's f parents.
; znéchigu, son-in-law. zepn, daughter-in-law.
a szescht, sister’s husband.
° sestem, sister's husband, brother’s wife.
SB
ee 2. Hushand, viz., nife dead.
: schélp, daughter-in-law.
c nhoi'ztn, sister’s husband, brother’s wife.
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ie COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF EIGHTEEN LANGUAGES
a SPOKEN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
e (The following vocabularies comprise mainly the well-known list of

7 words selected by Gallatin for his great work, the ‘Synopsis of the Indian
Tribes’ (published in 1836), which may be said to have laid the founda-
tion of American ethnology. The list was necessarily adopted, for the
purpose of comparison, ten years later, in the Report of the Wilkes
Exploring Expedition on the Tribes of Oregon, and subsequently, for the
same object, by other investigators, including such eminent authorities as

Messrs. Gibbs, Dall, and Powers, of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, and