542 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATJI LANGUAGE. 



lit. "that thing wliicli then remained", etc. Tlie Lord's Prayer, in 139, 1, 

 has kat only : Nalani p'tishap, kat p'laf tchia Our Father who lives on high. 

 Cf. also CI, 12. 17. ' 



The rehitivc pronoun is sometimes abbreviated into ka, ga. 



The distributive form, kakat, inflects almost like thatof kani ? whof 

 Absolute. 



kat, kat who, what, which ; that who, the one which. 



kantana, kandan, kanda (kant, 65, 18) ivhom, to whom; which, to which. 



kalani tvhose, of which, 68, 9. 



killamkshi at whose house; kalamkshtala etc. 

 Distributive. 



kakat, abbr. kak, those who; each of whom or which. 



kakiash (objective case). 



kakiam (possessive case). 



kakiamkshi etc. 



Where it is feasib.e to avoid incident clauses, the language likes to 



replace them by verbals or participial constructions, and this accounts for 



the scarcity of the relative pronoun. A student of the language may stay 



many weeks among the natives before he becomes aM'are of its existence. 



hii'ksa, kak (for kakat) at tini';^! tsa those who had just (joiie up the hill, 



23, 13. 

 ne-uleka nu hunkiasht kakat hiik siss6ka I punish those who have engaged 



in a fight, 61, 18. 

 watsag huk k'leka kandan kpe'l ktakiola nu the dog is dead whose tail I 



cut off; lit. "to whom I cut the tail off." 

 hiik mat mbushela, kalamkslu tak nu tank mak'le;(a the man at whose 



house I stopped is married, they say. 

 kandan hii'nk shli'n the one tvhom I had shot, 23, 20. 

 kanda nat hu'nk ii'na the one whom we brought, 24, 9. 



IV. INDEFINITE PRONOUN. 



Adjectives, the signification of which is so generic and indistinct that 

 they can replace substantives, are called by the above term. Most of them 

 undergo inflection. 



