ON THE ETHNOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



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Class Numerals. 



1 man, nO'nsa. 

 3 men, yaaise'la, 



3 „ tliiqe'la. 



4 „ Hiise'la. 



5 „ tlkatcfi'la. 



6 men, t'qu'mela. 



7 „ tsauksa'la. 



8 „ t'kaitesE'illa. 



9 „ tii'qala. ■ 

 10 „ a'piila. 



DISTRIBUTIVES, 



These are regularly formed by reduplicating the first syllable of the cardinfvl. 

 numbers, thus : — 



nEtnE'tsa, one each ; yisyi'sEla, two each ; apa'pEn, ten each. 



MULTIPLICATIVE S, OR NUMERAL' ADVERBS. 



After the first two these are regularly formed by suffixing the formative particle 

 atl to the cardinal numbers, as in N'tlaka'pamuQ, thus : — 



nE'tsauq, once ; siima', twice ; tliiQa'tl, thrice ; Haa'senatl, four times ; u'pEnatl, 

 ten times. 



PRONOUNS. 

 Pebsonal Pronouns. 



These, as is common in the Salish tongues, are of three classes : 

 the inflectional or copulative, and the incorporative or synthetic. 

 The independent are ; — 



the independent, 



ens, I, me. 

 no'a, thou, thee. 

 tEsa' or t'sa', he, him. 

 sE or 9a, she, her. 



tl'ne'mEtl, we, us. 

 tli'lEp, tl'wilEp, ye, you. 

 t'sa-li (common), they, 

 ye-sa', they (masc). 

 ye-^a' or yesE', they (fern.). 



Besides the above forms for the third person we find the to-tla or tau-tla, he, 

 him; qo-tla or qan-tla, she,hex ; tau'-tliilEm, they, them; tla'lEni, they, them, seen 

 in the Tcil'Qe'uk. The usage of these may best be seen in the Kwa'ntlEn text below. 

 The first person singular has a selective form, thus: tE ensa. In Kwa'ntlEn 1 he 

 presence of the demonstrative tE with the pronominal forms appears always to g-ive 

 a selective significance to them. It is not regularly compounded with them as in 

 Tcil'Qe'uk and some other dialects, where its uniform use has apparently caused the 

 pronouns to lose their selective force. The Kwa'ntlEn seems, therefore, to show xxa 

 the leason why this demonstrative particle came to be compounded with the pro- 

 nominal forms. The Kwa'ntlEn use also an emphatic form of the independent pro- 

 nouns, as follows : — 



wa-n-e'nsa, I myself. 

 wa-En-no'a, thou thyself, 

 wa-tla (to-tla), he himself, 

 wa-tla (so-tla), she herself. 

 1902. 



wa-tl'nEmEtl, we ourselves. 

 wa-tl'wilEp, you yourselves. 

 wa-tla-lEm, they themselves. 



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