1895.J 4U7 [Brinton. 



The possessives are : 



Mine, ayki; or, kikara. 



Thine, ayma ; or, makara. 



His or other's, dyni. 



In construction, the possessive pronoun of the second form fol- 

 lows the thing possessed ; as : 



My hat, guapue kikara. 



Thy dish, barrda makard. 



Thy hair. kill makard. 



In the abbreviated forms, ke, my, ma, thy, they are postfixed to 

 the nouns, forming, in connection with names of parts of the body, 

 etc., inseparables; as is generally the case in American languages. 



The personal pronouns have considerable similarity to those of 

 the Musquito language, which are : yang, I ; man, thou. This re- 

 semblance extends also to the possessives, Mus., lupi-ki, son mine 

 (my son); mitam (= mita-ni), hand thy (thy hand, etc.) (Adam, 

 Langue Alosquito, pp. 16-18). 



The identity is so striking that it would induce me to claim a 

 relationship between the two tongues, especially as they have cer- 

 tainly many other words in common ; but as I have elsewhere 

 pointed out, the personal pronouns and their derivations belong to 

 a class of words which must be excluded from linguistic compari- 

 son for ethnographic purposes.* 



The demonstratives are : 



This, ira)i: 



That, maniji. 



The second of these, it will be observed, is identical with the 

 second person singular of the personal pronoun "thou." 



Another demonstrative, wliich has sometimes the sense of a 

 definite article is mukare. It is appended to names borrowed from 

 the Spanish, as, drawers (Span, calzones), kalsoma mukare ; but is 

 not confined to these, as the name of the cotton tree is man dapan 

 mukare. 



The suffix has appears to be another demonstrative of a similar 

 character, as, yorrabas, the girl, 



* See Proceedings of the American Oriental Society, March, 1891. I have there shown 

 that there is an extensive physiological correlation between the sounds of many words 

 and the concepts they denote, so that similarities or identities are almost sure to present 

 themselves in stocks wholly disconnected. 



PKOC. AMER, PHILOS. SOC. XXXIV. 149. 2 Z. PRINTED FEB. 3, 1896. 



