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THE SERI INDIANS 



[ETH. ANN. 17 



Y UM AN — coutiu ued 



Sun 



'lunya (Uibljs) 



8. anya 



9. anya 



10. inyaa 



11. iiya (Gilbert) 



12. m'yatclie 



13. huya; huya ! 



14. inyu 

 1.5. n'ya 



16. enyah 



17. nya 



18. nyil 



19. uyilvi; nya 



20. nya 



21. n'ya 



22. enya 



23. enai 



24. eiiu'yachipai> 



Moon 

 fhuala 

 "Iballa (Gibbs) 



balya 



halya 



liaM a 



hla (Gilbert) 



Uuth'lya; bully ar 



halla 



kbilsbia 



hulcbya 



hutl'yah 



h'kla 



hala 



'la we; 'la 



jeliri 



hrillil 



bala 



bala 



belchbya 



Fire 

 faUowwa 

 laiiuwa (Gibbs) 



chiwaswe 



ailuwa 



tuga 



otoga (Gilbert) 



aawo 



ow 



aua 



aiou 



quu 



niatuanap 



ooh 



6o 



aau 



a^; itshi: 



obii 



aau 



a^oii 



Earth 



famata 

 lam-ma-ta (Gibbs) 



a-i 



amat; 



mat 



tciuma 



omut 



amutU (Bennett; 



a-mfi-ta 



mat 



mut 



mut 



mot 



mat; 



am^t; miite 



' coals ' 



amat; mata 



h'mat 



mat 



omot 

 umat 



Tbe comparative schedules of the Serian names for " sun " and ' ' moon " exhibit no 

 jibonetic evidence of genetic relationship with the collated lists of Yumau vocables 

 of like import. 



Between the Seriau names for "fire" and tbe Vuman terms of like import there is 

 no phonetic accordance indicative of glottologic kinship. 



It has been supposed, and not without a measure of possibility, that a radical 

 relationship exists between the Serian and the Yuman words denoting " earth ". The 

 supposition rests on the approximate phonetic accordance of two consonants occur- 

 ring in these terms, quite regardless of the vowel sounds that render them intelli- 

 gible. The four Seri authorities are in close accord in not hearing and recording a 

 vowel sound between the m and the following (. This final / is apparently explosive, 

 indicated by Mr Bartlett with a jjrefixed apostrophe and by Sr Tenochio with an e, 

 whose final position would make it faint. The initial h of the record of M Pinart is 

 very probably due to the Yuman-speaking interpreter. Now, in the 26 forms of tbe 

 Yuman word here collated the vowel intervening between the m and t of the Yumau 

 vocable is strong and characteristic, and in 11 instances it is accented. While tbe 

 Seri forms are monosyllables, 17 of the 28 Yuman examples are dissyllabic and 3 

 are trisyllables. Tbe Cocopa muat indicates the persistency of the medial vowel. 

 These difterences, admittedly but poorly indicated by the faulty alphabets employed 

 by the several word collectors, are important and siguiticant; were the several terms 

 here compared faithfully recorded as spoken, by means of a discriminative phonetic 

 alphabet, it seems probable that these literal accordances, in view of the marked 

 differences noted above, would disappear. So in the absence of historical evidence 

 of the genetic relationship of the Serian and the Yuman words denoting "earth", it 

 seems best to regard this literal accordance as fortuitous rather than real or genetic. 



Dog 



SERIAX 



Coyote 



A. 



B. achks 



C. ax'sh 

 D. 



vootth 

 boot 



TToIf 



ha8hoki?vlch. = "red hasho'' 

 ^'ekkos 



