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The Tunica interrogative and imperative —ki is apparently wanting 
in Chitimacha and Atakapa, and between those two languages the 
devices for indicating the moods are considerably different. How- 
ever, in view of the tendency observed in Tunica to employ one device 
for both, it is perhaps not mere accident that the interrogative in 
Atakapa and the imperative of the second person in Chitimacha are. 
alike indicated by a terminal particle or suffix a. In Atakapa the 
imperative of the second person singular takes no affix. Nothing 
either in Tunica or Chitimacha corresponds to the Atakapa imperative 
in the first person plural —16 or the imperative sign in the second person 
plural —-t0, although there may be some connection between the final 
vowel and the final vowel of the Chitimacha imperative suffix —mit 
employed in the first person plural. In Atakapa a final syllable -ta 
occurs which appears oftenest in future expressions in the first person 
singular, and this may have some connection with the Chitimacha 
particle té, although the latter generally appears to be interrogative 
in its nature. Thus we find in Atakapa: wi yilen akéta, I am going 
to stay to-morrow; nakit teko tia-lumlimicta, go ye and roll this 
barrel!; yakit dita, we will sleep; na ictsimta, you are going to pinch us; 
na caktsimta, you pinch them; it’ han ticta, where do you go? wi ticta, 
I go away; yiikit titita, we go away. While this appears to be only a 
form of the future ¢ (or —t/) it might readily have developed into the 
particle that we find in Chitimacha. 
Some of the auxiliaries have been touched upon. The Chitimacha 
auxiliary ka or kex, to want, to desire, shows no relationship to the 
Tunica equivalent, wana—which is not, however, employed as an 
auxiliary—but is somewhat closer to the Atakapa ko. The exact 
equivalent for the Chitimacha auxiliary —ho, signifying to be able, is 
not found in my Atakapa material, but wats, to know how, is sometimes 
used in the same sense. The Tunica word is cttéi(ka). Some of the 
Tunica auxiliaries have already been mentioned. The verb to go 
has the stem a in the singular and ci in the plural. The first of these 
is not very near anything found in the other languages, but it 1s possi- 
ble that the plural stem is connected with the Chitimacha singular 
stem tci. The stems of the verb to be, a and 6n, are also unlike any- 
thing in Chitimacha or Atakapa, unless the first may be related to 
Chitimacha hi, to be (sitting). However, some connection seems 
indubitable between azsa, to come, and Chitimacha ahi or dz, and haca, 
haci, to approach. If ana, to sit, is related to na, to lie, it may be 
compared with Chitimacha nate and Atakapa né, nat, to lay, to put. 
Up to the present time I have discovered no probable equivalent in 
either Chitimacha or Atakapa for the Tunica auxiliary ara, to remain. 
The Chitimacha plural suffix employed with nouns, —ka, seems at 
first sight entirely wanting in the other languages, but there are per- 
haps traces of it in the last consonant of the Tunica distributive 
