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to be cold. 



I am cold, st-htW. 

 thou art cold, sinilu'. 

 he is cold, sdtlo'. 



I speak, QUEsdd'. 

 thou speakest, Qundd' . 

 he speaks, Quadd' . 



The future is formed by the vowel u. 

 I skin it, distcee'. 

 I eat, istsqc' . 

 I tear it, ne'ntse. 



to speak. 



we two are cold, Hei'itl 

 we are cold, dd'sitlo. 

 ye are cold, Qaatlu' . 

 they are cold, BimtlO'. 



we speak, daQu'idd. 

 ye speak, daaoadd'. 

 they speak, daQoadd'. 



I shall skin it, dusted'. 

 I am going to eat, uistsqe 

 I shall tear it, nn'stse. 



The interrogative is formed by the suffix -ya : 



art thou cold ? sindlD'ya, 

 has he got a wife ? nWayd'ya. 



The negative is formed by the suffix -dshe' : 



I am not sick, Ssaai'dEbe. 

 I have no dog, istle'dsbe. 



There are numerous irregular verbs, particularly verbs of motion, but my notes on 

 this subject are very fragmentarj' : 



to run. 

 I am running, de'istVa. 

 thou art running, dcintVa' . 

 he is running, datVa'. 



to swim. 

 I am swimming, r/yina'sbo'. 

 thou art swimming, gyina'mhc. 



he is swimming, gymahc' . 



we are running, tldEjiU'ide. 

 ye are running, tldind'ode. 

 they are running, tldi'nadv. 



we are swimming, k'/i'eO. 

 ye are swimming, gyinau. 



J JiamJ'S. 



I found only a few dual forms, but there 

 I am sitting, xcKda. 

 we two are sitting, sikyi'. 

 man sitting, daidz^a'. 



they are swimming, < ' , 



Xgyinao. 



no doubt that many more exist. 



run up, sing. sHtl'a. 



run up, dual, sc'a. 



run up, plural, sedc. 



The prefixed pronouns of the various tenses differ in the same manner as in other 

 dialects, but I have not been able, so far, to systematise the fragmentary material 

 at my dis{)osal. 



The preceding remarks show, however, that the dialect of the Ts'Ets'a'ut is more 

 closely affiliated to the Chippewayan and Sarcee than to the Chilcotin and Carrier 

 dialects. 



The following pages contain a comparative vocabulary of two dialects of the 

 Tsimshian, the Tsimshian proper and the Nisk'a', and of three Tinneh dialects : the 

 Tatltan (Tahltan), Ts'Ets'a'ut, and the TkulHiyogoa'ikc. The last of these is extinct. 

 The tribe inhabited the Upper Willopah River, in the State of Washington, and 

 is, therefore, the most northern of the great number of Tinneh tribes which are 

 scattered along the Pacific coast. The dialect is, for this reason, particularly inter- 

 esting. I am indebted to Major J. W. Powell, Director of the U.S. Bureau of 

 Ethnology, for permission to publish the vocabulary of this tribe which was collected 

 by George Gibbs in February 1856, and which is in the Library of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology in Washington, D.C. Gibbs calls the tribe erroneously O'whil-lapsh 

 (Quila'pc), this being the name of the Chinook tribe of the Lower Willopah Eiver. 

 Their name in the Chinook language is TkulHiyogoa'ikc, which agrees with Anderson's 

 name Kwal-whee-o-qua : their dialect seems to be almost identical vnth that of the 

 Klatskanai. I obtained a few words on my last journey from an old Chinook 

 woman, which I add to Gibbs's list. He introduces his vocabulary with the following 

 remarks : — • 



