1877.] boi. [Oatschet. 



lo tlie ubiquitous article-pronoun of the Chahta language. Frequently 

 other postpositions are placed between -ma and the word-stem, or after -ma 

 as final syllables. 



Other postpositions frequently occurring in the Tiniucua noun are : -co, 

 -COCO, -ke, -la, -le, -leta, -leiie (-leqe), -ni, -no, -si, -so, -ta, -te, -ti, etc. 



The demonstrative particle na is employed in many diflferent ways. 

 When placed before the jioun, it serves as a definite article ; when suffixed 

 to it is the possessive pronoun '' mj/, mine." Owing to the indistinct pronun- 

 ciation of unaccented vowels, which we observe sometimes in Pareja's texts, 

 na appears also under the shape of 7ie, mi ; na enters into the compo- 

 sition of the pronoun a wo, " somebody, something, some one, one." Ni in 

 ni sikinama means "me;'' these words signify my father, and a literal 

 translation would render them by "the one, who procreated me." Ki is 

 here the radical syllable In his Catechism, page 18, Pareja gives the series 

 of ordinal numbei's which unfortunately runs no further than to seven : Na 

 is prefixed to each of them as tlie definite article, and the enAKng-mima is. 

 the possessive pronoun of the third person singular : his, her, its. 



Cardinals: , Ordinals: 



mine 1 minecotamano, kibema 



yucha 2 na yuchamima 



hapu 3 na hapumima 



cheketa 4 na cheketamima 



marua 5 na maruamima 



mareka 6 na marekamima 



pikicha 7 na pikichamima 



piqinahu 8 na piqinahumima 



peqecheqeta 9 na peqecheqetamima 



tuma 10 na tumamima 



yahagala 11 



iuchaagala 12 



hapuangala 13 



chequetangala 14 



ero tuma yucho 21 



tuma hapu 30 



tumacheqetama 40 



itumacheqetoqe marua 45 



ero chupiaco iuchaagala 12,000 



In this series many terms are ending in -a ; four is formed from two, cAa, 

 c/<e appearing in both, and ke in "four" being an additive particle "to- 

 gether." We cannot decide as yet if the series is based on the quinary or 

 simply on the decimal system of counting. 



We often find appended to nouns, especially to substantives borrowed 

 from the Spanish, the suffix -/« we /jo, -m'tno. Mueno means "the name, " 

 or "to name, to call" and composes terms like muenidete is called, hachi- 

 buena, hachimueno "which thing V which? what'?" (literally: which 



