534 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



The IJtali language resembles closely that of the Shoshones, Snakes, 

 and Pai-Utes. The Gosi Utes in Nevada and Utah speak a lan- 

 guage closely allied to that of the Shoshones, and intermarry with the 

 Utes. In this paper, however, I shall refer only to those branches 

 which constitute the Ute tribe proper, occurring as they do within the 

 limits of the reserve. This occupies the tract of land, along the west- 

 ern border of Colorado, included within the following boundaries: — 

 " Commencing at that point on the southern boundary-line of the Ter- 

 ritory of Colorado, where the meridian of longitude 107° west from 

 Greenwich crosses the same ; running thence north with said meridian 

 to a point 15 miles due north of where said meridian intersects the 

 fortieth parallel of north latitude ; thence due west to the western 

 boundary -line of said Territory ; thence south with said western bound- 

 ary-line of said Territory ; thence east with said southern boundary- 

 line to the place of beginning." The population of the reservation 

 Utes is below three thousand. 



In preparing the following list of Indian words for publication, the 

 author has followed as nearly as possible the instructions of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, as set down in its '' Miscellaneous Collections ", No. 

 160. Different values, however, have been substituted in some of the 

 consonants, according to sugge stions of Mr. A. S. Gatschet, as used by 

 him in his vocabularies. The alphabetic notation employed in this lim- 

 ited paper, however, applies only to the dialects in question, and must 

 necessarily be extended for other languages and jargons, which are not 

 closely allied. The use of-j, g, a?, iv^ z, etc., varies in different languages, 

 and while their values have been retained, such equivalents have been 

 substituted in their places as to render the sounds to a certain extent cos- 

 mopolitan. 



Syllables are not separated, and hyphens are only used in cases of 

 hiatus, or between compounds. 



VOWELS. 



A or a long, as in father. 



«, as in all. 



a, as in. fat. 

 M ov e long, as in tliey. 



e short, as in met. 

 I or i long, as in marine. 



% short, as in ;pin. 

 or 6 long, as in go. 

 TJ or u long, as in rule. 



u short, asin/M^Z. 



ii, as in hut. 



u, as in union, pure, to be written yu. 

 Ai or ai, as in aisle. 

 Au or au, as ow in now, ou in loud. 



