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sense, in which case lol is omitted. These are viec, all ; pullem, 

 along with ; cotnec, incomec and pemec, signifying quantity, and 

 vianmin, as many as. Whenever the plural is indicated by the 

 form of the attached pronoun, other plural signs may be omitted. 



There is no grammatical distinction of gender in nouns, differ- 

 ence of sex being indicated by the terms nun, male ; ila, female, 

 which may be either prefixed or suffixed, as : 



Man, nuniayu or iayunun. 

 Woman, ilaiayu or iaytiila. 

 Boy, nunpullup. 

 Girl, ilapullup. 



A neuter or epicene gender can be denoted by a suffixed o, as 

 nund, a person. 



Various suffixes are added to nouns to modify their meaning, as : 



rdc, signifying excess or abundance. 

 zu, signifying absence or negation. 



camayoc, indicating knowledge of a subject or practice in it. This word 

 is borrowed from the Kechua. 



Pronouns. 



The pronouns possess the prominence in this tongue which they 

 so frequently show in American languages. All parts of speech can 

 be grammatically inflected by their agency, and they generally 

 suffice to indicate the plural without the insertion of the plural 

 sign, lol. 



The primitive pronouns are : 

 I, oc. We, quija. 



Tliou, mi. You, minaja. 



He, sa. They, chija. 



The separable or independent possessives are formed by adding 

 to the primitives the particle alou, with slight euphonic changes: 



Mine, ocalou. Ours, quihaguilou. 



Tliine, mimilov. Tours, mimilouha. 



His, sailou. Theirs, cMhaloula. 



The inseparable possessives are those prefixed to form the con- 

 jugation of verbs, and attached to certain classes of nouns. They 

 are as follows : 



My, a-- Our, qui-. 



Thy, on- (masc), p- (fern.). Your, mi- (both genders). 



His (none). Their, chi-. 



