﻿In this vocabulary the ch, except when immediately preceded 

 by t, is pronounced as in the Scottish "loch" or Irish " och ;" 

 u is sounded as oo in good, except before double consonants ; 

 and i as ee in " see," or e in " me." 



Mr. Murray remarks that, though the above 

 words and a few names of trading goods are 

 similar in sound, the languages of the two nations 

 are very diiFerent. More resemblances, he thinks, 

 might be traced through the Mountain Indian 

 speech (Naha Hdinne or Dtche-ta-ut Hinne) than 

 directly between the Kutchin and Dog-rib tongues. 

 The HanKutcM^ of the sources of the Yukon, 



