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Tsimshian -I : 

 wa, nl'°dzEn'if do you see? 

 7nE dEdufHsEnif are you alive? 

 a wu la dzakl wa'nif is the deer dead yet ? 

 al VIE n!axnd'°di gu .rstdmqtf don't j^ou hear a noise? 

 al dl ga'usE7ilf have you no hair? 



Tsimshian -u: 



sl'°pgutf is he sick? 



al triE wula'idut tn-wuld'gunf dost thou not know who did this 



to thee? 

 al mE Id' wida habEhd'ldutf didst thou not alwa}'^ keep it? 



2. No interrogative suffix is used after interrogative pronouns. 

 a^o' what (Tsimshian: gd'^): 



ago'h La an-hd'h qal-ts'apf what is it that the people say ? 138.15 

 ago'h dsm an-a'k'SEnf what are you going to drink? 17.14 

 ago' L he' tsEnf what is talkmg (there) ? 23.9 

 Tsimshian: 



I gd° wida ha'untf what do you sa}^? 

 W6:?fl^ where (Tsimshian: ndA): 



ndaL hwtl hetk^L hwtljjf where is the house? 

 ndaL dEint hwtl de-iottkH? where will he have come from? 16.6 

 Tsimshian: 



I ndA wula iDd'HgEntf where do you come from? 

 Thd who (Tsimshian: nd°y. 



im f an-ax-hwtld' ytn? who does not know thee ? 

 Tsimshian: 



nd°l t hi na'hsgE Igu'HgES Gauo'f who is the one to marry the 



daughter of Gauo? 

 nd'^dE gu awd'°)if who is the one next to thee? 



§ as. The Imperative 



The imperative of intransitive verbs is ordinarily expressed by the 

 second person of the indicative or subjunctive, while its emphasis may 

 be lessened by the particle dzE. Very often the personal pronoun is 

 strengthened by the addition of the prefixed subjective pronouns. 

 In many cases the imperative has the future particle, which suggests 

 that the form is not a true imperative but merely a future which serves 

 the purpose of expressing an order. 



dE-m, yu'kdETiL f Em-Id' neE hold to my neck! 75.11 



dETTi qald'qnom let us play! (literally, we shall plaj^) 75.6 



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