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as a Verb-ending denotes Past Time (or action), -o the 

 Future, and i (-ee) the Present. In other words, i (ee), 

 a (ah), o, are the terminations of all verbs, for signify- 

 ing the Present, the Past, and the Future Tenses, re- 

 spectively as the Three Basis Tenses of tl^e Yerb. 

 A repetition of these Yowels distributes the Tenses 

 into a Relative Past, Present, and Future (called Per- 

 fect, Imperfect, etc.) The vowel -u (-66) is the ending 

 for the Imperative Mood (third Person) ; otherwise the 

 Root-word serves for the Imperative ; -u also denotes 

 the Subjunctive Mode, and receives the Pivotal Vow- 

 els added for its Tenses ; and -i,e (ee-a) denotes the 

 Conditional or Optative an assumed state (-e) of be- 

 ing present (-i), the e serving for resultant state see 

 the Participles. The ending -ya denotes the Infinitive. 

 203. The Personal Pronoun I is, in Alwato, yo, or io, 

 as in Spanish and Italian (y, radiating centricity, i, cen- 

 tral being, and o, presence.) For a verb-stem we may 

 assume the English word speak, merely changing the 

 spelling of it to spik, for while a word wrought 

 out from Alwaso Elements to mean the same might 

 serve, it is equally permissible to naturalize adopted 

 citizens, in the New Word-Republic, from any of the 

 existing languages, only requiring of them to con- 

 form, in decency of appearance (their orthographic 

 dress), and in their relations with the natives (their 

 prepositions, verb-endings, etc.), to the constitution 

 and laws of the New Domain. These two words, to- 

 gether with the Verb-endings shown in the last pre- 

 ceding paragraph, suffice, to exhibit substantially the 

 whole Conjugation of the Verb, as follows : 



