66(3 



EEPORT — 1898. 



These words agree very closely on the Nicola "Valley dialect and in Chilcotin. 

 Only three among these twelve words differ in a manner which cannot well be 

 explained by difference of perception and transcription. They are the following : 



Since three words were collected from more than one individual, and bj- three 

 different collectors, it seems likely that there existed an actual difference between 

 these dialects in regard to these words. 



The following words of the Nicola Valley dialect was not understood by either 

 Chilcotin or Netca'ut'in when read by me. In a number of cases I obtained the 

 equivalents of the English words in the two last-named dialects. 



Nicola Valley 

 t-haeh 

 tei'-hutz 

 thatc 

 nootl 



hulhultu'tai 

 taki'nktcin 

 zulke'ke 

 tsho 

 tEqo'ztz 

 notl-ta-ha't-se 

 notlqa'tzi 

 qtlona'zi 

 ta-ta-ney,' 

 tet-ta-a-ue' 

 ta-a'-ni 

 tsae 



ska-kil-ih-kane 

 naltsi'tse 

 tlutl 



ti-li-tsa-in 

 n-shote 



pin-a-le-el-i-itz 

 a'we qe 



EiiKlisli 



1 



711 an 



man 



man 



man 



a fish 



a Jisli 



ground-kog 



buck of deer 



soap -her rij 



wild currant 



Chilcotin Netca'ut'in 



tinne, ta'yan tine' 



hiife 



spoon, 

 rush mat 

 arrow-head 

 pacldng line 

 give me the spoon '. 

 give it to me ! 

 take care ! 

 come here, child 



teti'ny 

 nesi'ny 

 nO'ruc 



tqaltsE'l (?) 

 pala' 



tetni' 



yests'etine' 



nawa'c 



ali's 



k-a'niH sE'nts'atl 



gultl'i's hutlE's 



duntai' nti'ntai 



qetla'nt'iy qetla't'iy 

 nuan te ka'niH — 



nna te 



sotselue'tle wo'nli 



I have omitted the numerals in the comparison, because I suspect that those 

 recorded by Mr. Mackay (I.e., p. 33) are not numerals, but various words which the 

 informant enumerated as known to him. I think that this is the case, because 

 many of them agree nearly or quite accurately with other words of our list. Mr. 

 James Teit, who collected a number of words from the Indians, first called my atten- 

 tion to this fact. The following list shows these agreements : 



Numerals 



one, sa-pe 

 two, tun-ih 

 three, tlohl 

 fotir, na-hla-li-a 

 five, e-na-hle 

 six, hite-na-ke 

 seven, ne-shote 

 eight, k-pae 

 nine, sas 



Other words 

 sa-pie, trout. 

 tin-ih, hear-berry . 

 tlotl, packing line (Teit). 



n-shote, give it to vie ! 

 t-pae, ewe of mmiiitain sluep. 

 sass, bea/r. 



These agreements and the fundamental differences between these numerals 

 and those of all other Tinneh dialects make the series more than doubtful. 



Although the apparent differences of a small vocabulary like tlie present have no 

 great weight, I am inclined to think that there was a difference between the Chilcotin 

 and the Nicola Valley dialect. The language was, however, evidently very closely 

 related to the Chilcotin, while it differed considerably from the Carrier dialects. 



