680 REPORT—1890. 
An article is used extensively ; it precedes nouns and adjectives, and stands be- 
tween the substantive and the verb. It has a masculine and feminine gender. 
the bird (1) flies (2), ts?tsipé’ (1) ti st’usehk: (2) 
my grandmother, tsi hikia'tstsu. 
It seems that only females of men and animals have the feminine article. 
The numerals have various classes: 
Animals : - 
— Men fathoms, ai toes Box, vessel Ronee 
blankets ale eine 
1 NONMaAt é sma'o smau'aag manu atl sma! otl 
2 nutlno'sau tlnos tindsa'aq tlua'satl tind'sutl 
3 naasmd' sau asmo's asmosi' ag asmo'sutl asmo'sutl 
4 numo' sau mos mosi'ag mo'sutl mo'sutl 
5 nuts’é'n’0a ts’éa ts’éqi'aq ts'@'qutl 
6 nutgo'tlau tgotl tqotla'ag tqo'tlutl 
Numeral adverbs are formed by the suffix —anz'msts. 
Personal pronouns are : I, ens. we, umitl. 
thou, ind. ye, tloptl. 
he, taiz. they, tats. 
The possessive pronouns are twofold: 
my, enstl. our, Hnutl. 
thy, indtl. your, ¢V’dptl. 
his, ?aintl. their, (?) 
my house, enstd ti sotl. 
The second form is suffixed : 
my—ts. our—itl, 3 
thy—xno. your—apa. ; 
his—s. their—auts. ; 
my grandson, stlémtsts. ; 
thy grandson, stlémtsno. ; 
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When the noun is a feminine the possessive pronoun takes the ending—antsu: 
my granddaughter, stl@mtstsutsu. 
thy granddaughter, stlémtsnoutsu. 
The intransitive verb is inflected either by means of suflixes or by joining the 
pronoun to it by the article. A third form originates by repetition of the pronoun. 
to go, tl’ap. 
1st person sing, tVapsts ens ti tlap tl’apsts ti ens. 
2nd) 5 = tlapnuts ino ti tVap tVapnuts ti ind. 
Srdick 05 y taps Cain ti tlap tlaps ti ut’ain. 
Ist ,,. plur: tVapitl umitl ua tVap Vapitl ua umitl 
2nd, Bs tl apapa tloptl ua tap Wapapa ua tl opt. 
3rd, gins - tVapauts tats ua tVap tVapauts ua ats. 
The pronominal object is incorporated in the pronoun. My collection is, how- 
ever, not sufficient to give the transitive verb in a paradigmatic form. 
Snanaimua. 
The noun has no separate forms for singular and plural. It has a distributive 
formed by reduplication, epenthesis, or dizresis, : 
Distributive. Diminutive. 
deer, smé'yx¢. sEmé'yes. — 
deer, ha'pet. hala' prt. — 
mink, tcitct'ehan. teiletct'eh'an. —_ 
