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is sometimes emploj'-ed by Dorsey instead of the acute accent, and in 

 almost all cases it is over an oral particle and indicates a falling tone. 



In the Biloxi-English section it has been impossible to reduce all 

 forms under stems which are constant and always consistent, and in 

 some cases it has been found necessary to enter words or portions of 

 words as principal headings, though they are evidently compounds. 

 The classification must be understood as representing an analj^sis 

 carried a considerable distance toward completion but not actually 

 completed. The final analysis can take place only when all of the 

 Siouan dialects have been recorded, analj^zed, and mutually com- 

 pared, a work still far in the future. Where stems have several 

 different classes of derivatives an attempt has been made to separate 

 these by dashes, but, as in the analysis, consistency throughout has not 

 been possible. Figures refer to the number of the myth and the line in 

 the text. Biloxi words in parentheses without an English translation 

 or explanation are inflections of the verb or noun next preceding, and 

 are given in the following order : Second person singular, first person 

 singular, third person plural, second person plural, first person plural. 

 Dorsey has inverted the usual English order for the reason that in 

 most Siouan dialects the form for the third person singular is identical 

 with the stem and therefore makes a better starting point than the 

 first person. An English explanation in quotation marks, is to be 

 understood as a literal translation of the preceding Indian word, and 

 where two or more forms of the same Indian word are given in suc- 

 cession, some accompanied and some unaccompanied by figures, the 

 figures are to be understood as applying only to the form immediately 

 preceding. 



The material on Ofo was collected by the writer in November and 

 December, 1908, from the last survivor of that tribe. In general the 

 phonetics appear to be like those in Biloxi, but it has been impossible 

 to make the same fine discriminations. On the other hand, the fol- 

 lowing additional signs are used : o like o in stof; a like ai in liaiv; 

 ' denotes a pause. Probably the consonants followed by ^, which is 

 here very distinct, correspond to the aspirated consonants of other 

 Siouan dialects. 



John R. S wanton. 



