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The terminal mer occurs in numerals to designate a hundred-fold value : 

 sms, one ; silkuamer, one hundred. SpmJcor corresponds with the English 

 snf&x teen or ten : mcinigin, five ^ miimg spmTcor, fifteen. 



From a careful study of these vocabularies, the following points will 

 be observed : — 



/ occurs but rarely, if at all. The sound indicated by / is perhaps 

 between the English / and the German guttural aspirate ch in ach, and 

 this is only found in a few words, as given me by Dr. J.D. Littlefield. In 

 the words which I gathered myself, / does not occur, and I found that 

 the Yampa Utes pronounced the sound with great difficulty, almost in- 

 variably substituting p. The / sound may be rendered by v, and it 

 might not be inaccurate to make this substitution wherever words 

 have been spelled with /. 



