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Tunica 
—ta, locative ‘‘at;” —tik, lo- 
cative “‘toward;” ta, 
sowilthy sauavietestanvie TDS 
“‘while.”’ 
app esat Miss. eee ak 
LoHP ee oP Ae See as Aes Ee eae 
mi, ma, still more remote. - - 
ta, article; ti-, feminine 
affix, third person singular 
(see above). 
HO (ou)s alles. soccer eee 
ka, indefinite demonstrative. 
ma, thing? 
nothing). 
(in mahoni, 
Chitimacha 
—t, vestigial locative with 
demonstratives; ti, tat, 
subordinate conjunction 
Wien Cea auevein treed 
‘‘while;” (—kin, with). 
-up, locative ‘‘toward”’.- - 
-nki, -nk (after vowels), 
-ki, -k (after conso- 
nants), locative ‘‘to,”’ 
Ot aa 
San, “with? >. ..252s2c8 
—tctn, on account of, for -- 
ma, still more remote.... - - 
ta, feminine demonstra- 
tive. 
6 in ho and to (plurals of 
ha and ta). 
ka, where? (one case of 
this occurs). 
what, 
thing. 
am, something, 
Atakapa 
ot, particle, ‘‘toward;”’’ 
tiwe, ‘“‘with,’’ ‘‘together 
WodeG need? 
“near,” 
‘‘close to,” 
-p, locative ‘‘at.”’ 
Cun ”? 
-kin, -ki, locative ‘‘in, 
-ik, ‘‘with.’’ 
c6, postposition sometimes 
meaning ‘‘for.’’ 
ha, a, this. 
ya, that. 
ma, still more remote. 
te, a particle used before 
certain nouns with the 
force of an article. 
mon, kuc, all; —-u, plural 
and usitative suffix (see 
above). 
kai, then, at that time or 
place; kut, kat, this (E). 
This leaves as entirely unaccounted for the Tunica imperative and 
interrogative suffix -ki, the auxiliaries ana, to sit, ara, to remain, the 
plurals 6n, to be, in, to cause, and auxiliary ho, to be able, and the 
Atakapa future in —he or -ehe, the past suffix —-at, the imperative 
suffix of the second person plural -td, and the indefinite cok, thing, 
something. 
The above investigation has involved the use of a certain number 
of independent stems to the examination of all of which we are now 
brought. The results of this examination are contained in the table 
which follows. Parts of words in parentheses are either affixes or 
sections of the word which there are strong reasons for considering to 
be affixes. Atakapa examples from the eastern dialect are followed 
by a capital (E) in parentheses; for clarity (W), ‘‘ western dia- 
lect,” is used occasionally; examples from the Akokisa dialect by 
(Ak) in parentheses. It is possible to adduce a number of other 
