12 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



Lifu, nisha (for nita, as 

 Eromangan Jws, Tanna 

 kita) 



In Malay, Maori-Hawaiian, and Papuan ta is generally 

 used for Thou in this combination, and not ka; but Hawaiian 

 does not distiuguish between t and k, and has only one letter 

 (k) for both. 



Most of the Maori-Hawaiian dialects have lost the first 

 member of the phrase (ki or ni 1), and have only the last ta 

 (Hawaiian ka) Thou. Fate uses only this last as the verbal 

 pronoun, thus 



Dual ta (literally, Ye two) 



So Samoan ta 

 Plural tu (literally Ye), 



So Tongan lau 



23. The Pronoun of the Third Person. 



Separate Pronoun, Singular. 



Malagasy, izy Assyrian, su 



Malay, iya Hebrew, hia (fern.) 



Tongan, aia hua (mas.) 



Fate, nai 



Samoan, 'o ia 



Fate, enea Talmud, enhu 



Malay, inya 



Tagala, sia Assyrian, si (fem.) 



Negrito, Umiray, edu Ethiopic, uetu 



New Caledonia, iet 



Aneiteum, aien Mod. Syr., aon 



Tanna, in „ ain (fem.) 



The Verbal Pronoun. 



Fate, &c., i or e Heb., &c., i 



Aneiteum, et Arabic, t (fem.) 



MallicoUo, ni, or ne Syriac, ne 



The Verbal Suffix. 



Fate, i, e, or ia Heb., &c., u 



Chald., eh 



Syr., i 

 Malay, nia Heb., ennu 



Fate, na, nia Heb., na 



