14 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



h. But while the Oceanic has dropped or lost the inflec- 

 tion of gender in the personal pronouns of both singular and 

 plural, the Modern Syriac has dropped or lost it only in those 

 of the plural. 



c. Ani means Those as well as They. 



d. Ani, though plural, is sometimes used for the singular 

 in Mod. Syriac. 



So Malay nia, Malagasy ny, are both plural and singular 

 as nominal suffix. 



25. The Verbal Pronoun. 



Fate dual m §§ 8, 10, 13 



„ plural ru 



Samoan dual la 



Tongan plural nau 



The Verbal Suffix 



(in most dialects calls for no remark^ but the following is 

 very remarkable) 



Api, tomiako (cf. singular teteako), ako like aki in Anudha 



eovu aki (see Separate Pronoun) is emphatic. 

 Api, tomi (ako) Tigre, tome 



Eth., liomw (for tomu); Dillm., 

 Gr., § 149) 



26. Briefly and inadequately as this extensive subject of 

 ihe Pronouns is handled in the foregoing, it is much more 

 full than the section on the same subject in a former paper 

 (1883), which also, as may be noted, is hereby corrected in 

 •certain particulars. 



11. THE NUMERALS. 



(With an Appendix on the Australian Numerals.) 



§ 1. The Oceanic numerals cited in the following may 

 nearly all be found in the lists of Crawford (" Dissertation "), 

 Latham (" Comparative Philology "), H. Gabelentz (^' Die 

 Melanenischen Sprachen"), and the " Erster Nachtrag " to 

 that work, of G. Gabelentz and Meyer (Leipzig, 1882), 

 Wallace ("Malay Archipelago"), and Turner ("Samoa," 

 1884). The few here printed for the first time belong 

 exclusively to the New Hebrides, and are of purely 

 dialectical value. 



