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so Rarotongan, has tu rua. Hawaiian, tua Iva and tua tolu; and Tongan, 
tuo wa or tuo tolu.* 
V. The Pronouns, of which there are five Classes, Personal, Possessive, 
Demonstrative, Relative, and Interrogative, are somewhat complicated, but, 
chiefly so, from the number of words, many of which, in English, we should 
consider had only a quasi pronominal value. As a rule, they exhibit, 
throughout all the dialects I have been able to compare, a remarkable 
similarity, moreover are mostly found in all the three numbers of the 
Singular, Dual and Plural. 
It will be simplest to refer to each class separately, so I take jirst the 
Personal Pronouns :t 
The following scheme gives the First Persons of Personal Pronouns in the 
different Dialects : 
oe Singular. Dual. Plural, 
epee ee 
aori hau, koe, ia maua, taua, korua, raua lmatou, tatou, koutou, ratou 
Rarotong au same s 
Mangarevan | au same s 
Tahitian .. | au, oe, oia maua, taua, ’orua, raua |matou, tatou, ‘outou, ratou 
Hawaiian .. | au, oe, ia maua, taua, olua, laua matou, tatou, ’outou, latou 
Samoan... | au, ou, o8, ia maua, taua, olua, laua matou, tatou, outou, latou 
a, ta, lua, 
tTongan .. te or oa, ger-ia mau, tau mo, rau. 
en yee Cob She 
The chief point to notice here is that the Dual and Plural are formed 
by the addition of the numbers, two and three, to the radical of the 
pronouns; but the roots differ from the singular and the numeral is 
somewhat contracted. Thus— : | 
We two (inclusive) is in Maori, Rarotongan, Tahitian, Marquesan, taua ; 
Tongan, guita wua ; Hawaiian, kaua. 
We two (exclusive) in Maori, Rarotongan, Tahitian, Hawaiian, is maua ; 
Tongan, gui ma uua. 
You two—korua, Maori, Rarotongan ; orva, Tahitian ; olua, Hawaiian ; 
guimoua, Tongan. 
In these we see the respective additions, of rua, lua, ua (two). 
Sb te 
* I ought to add that Forster (in his notes on Capt. Cook’s Voyages), puts before all 
his Numerals ebo, as, ebo dahai, 1; Ebo houa, 2. But, as bo or po isthe usual word for 
night, this evidently refers to the habits of the natives, who count by nights, as we by 
days. In Tahitian, rui is often used for night. 
+ I am indebted for this list partly to the Maori Grammars of Kendal, Williams, and 
Maunsell, and partly to the works of the Abbé Mosblech and M. Buschmann. 
tI do not feel sure that the above is quite correct. Any how Tongan differs a good 
deal from the others 
