226 ON THE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE 



tlie terms asyang, lord, sir; sak'hang, highness ; khang- 

 pdraj^ niajesty, are employed. 



The pronouns ill common use in Rukhhig, according 

 to this variety of ceremonial forms, may be thus 

 exhibited. 



To explain the particular instances in which each 

 of these pronominal terms is used, is not consistent 

 with my present object, which is only to present a 

 general outline of the structure of the language. 



The moods and tenses of the verbs are in like 

 manner expressed by means of particles, or significant 

 words, like our auxiliary verbs. Such are si, hi, hi-rt 

 and k-hi^ is; bri and IS yakk, is, been; bri-rS and 

 bri-kha-rS, was ; m?i/, will; r« and va-me, may, can; 

 yaung, let, permit; hi-sua, been. The position of 

 these particles in a sentence, is often, however, a. 

 matter of considerable difficulty, and is one of the 

 circumstances in which the elegance of style chiefly 

 consists. The style chiefly affected in Rukheng 

 composition, is a species of measured prose, regulated 

 by accent and the parallelism of the members of a 



