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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Grammatical Resemblances. 



Be^^^ween the Eskimo language, and the Turanian tongues of North 

 Asia, besides the numerous coincidences in vocabulary noticed above, 

 there exist many remarkable resemblances in the general character of 

 grammatical structure which at once strike the student of comparative 

 philology. In Eskimo, grammatical particles are suffixed only, which 

 is the case in several N. Asiatic tongues, although not so absolutely 

 as in Innuit. The suffix of the dual number is in Yurak ha, g, k ; 

 in Ostiak, g, k ; in Tawgy, gai ; in Jenesei, ho, go ; Wogiil, g, Aino, 

 ^•i, gi (plural ; Lapp., k, h plural), Magyar, k (plural) ; and in In- 

 niut, k ; Aleut., kek ; Mack. River, ek, ik, eik, ok, uk, ak, etc. Ju- 

 kagir, g, k, ch (plural) ; Corean, chai (plur.). 



The suffix of the plural is in Finnish, t, in Vepse, d, in Esthonian, 

 d, in Mordwin, t, in Ostiak, t, et, Samoiede-Ostiak, t, Mongol, ut, od, 

 Mandchu, ta, te, Buriat, ut, Innuit, t, Mack. River, at, ait, etc. 



In Yurak the suffix of the second person singular is n, in Tawgy 

 and Jakut, ng, in Tchiglit (Mack. R.), n, an, in, en ; the suffix of the 



