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at its termination ; the personal terminations re- 

 main perfectly similar through all the tenses, and, 

 in the essential points, through all the modes. By 

 the insertion of different particles after the root, 

 (only a few prepositions are placed before it,) a 

 number of conjugations arise, the signification of 

 which appears to be founded on different con- 

 ditions. Thus negative, frequentative, &c. In 

 the transitive conjugations {Transiciones of the 

 Spanish grammarians) the object of the action, 

 the pronoun of the accusative, is often taken into 

 the verb. A sentence is often treated as the 

 root of a verb, and provided with the particles of 

 time, termination, person, &c. so that the sense is 

 compressed into a single word. From verbs thus 

 compounded, in the same manner as from simple 

 ones, derivatives are formed by various termin- 

 ations. The Araucanian has, in the declension 

 and conjugation a dual, but it has not the double 

 plural of the first person, which the Quichua lan- 

 guage of Peru has in common with the languages 

 of India. This coincidence in the Quichua is, 

 however, purely accidental, and not founded on 

 any internal relation. The Quichua is as foreign 

 to the original language which has engaged us, as 

 the ChiHdugu, with which, notwithstanding a re- 

 markable difference of the roots, it generally 

 agrees in the grammar, and evidently belongs to 

 the same system pf language. 



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