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me, or not? Avelaam pe nu qohlem, mamanton? Dost thou know me, 
or not? Quere pe, mamanion? Is this so, or not ? 
Inrerrogative Apverss. The general interrogative is nak? What, 
or, What is this? Who? Which? Mak qut wow vi? Who art thou? Nak 
la qa rumal? For what reason? Nak peri? What is this? Ba, where? 
Ba pe qo vi? Where is he? Balaga qo vi ruchohmit? Where is the truth 
of this? Bé and be also have interrogative force, as, Be chok ta vetumah 
wi ri? How didst thou know it? Been aa ban? How didst thou do it? 
La biteth, truly? as, La kiteih pe wabiih ri? Truly, didst thou say this? 
The particle makd is in very common use for the affirmative interrogatives, 
well, well then, etc., as, Maki tekumu halal ya? Then, thou willst not 
drink water? 
Dupirative Apverss. The particle la expresses a doubt as to whether 
the action referred to has occrured ; asin answer to the question, Has the 
father come? The reply, I la aul, or Mi wul la, means, He may have 
come, it is possible. A much used compound of similar signification is 
pachZom qa vach, from pachzom, to turn, to change ; it is used with the 
possessive pronouns, as, pachzom ru vach nuqua, I am in doubt, literally, 
my mind (heart) changes its face. 
NUMERALS. 
41—hu nrowg a. 
1—un. 
42—cay roxqal, &e. 
2—cay. 
8— ont. 60. —ong al. 
4—cahi. 61—hun vu humugh, &e. 
5—v00. 80—humugh. 
6—vakaki. 100—oqal. 
101—hun ru vakqal. 
8-—vakaaki. ik 20—vahqal. 
9-—bdelehe. 121—Awn vu oukq al. 
10—lahuh. 140—vukqal. 
11—hulahuh. 160—vakeak qal. 
1 80—belehq at. 
200—otuc. 
Y—vuku. 
12—cablahuh. 
18—oalahuh. 
14—cahlahuh. 300—volahuhqal. 
15—voolahuh. 400—omuq/. 
16—oaklahuh. 500—omugh oqat. 
1%—vuklahuh. 600. —omugh otuc. 
18—vakaak lahuh. 700—omugh volahuh qa. 
19—beleh lahuh. 800—caxXo. 
20—hu vinak. 900—oaqal T0XOX0. 
2—hu vinak hun, &e. 1000—otuc rowoXo. 
40—ca vinak. 8000—hu chuoy. 
The numeral voo, five, when joined with the possessive pronoun loses 
its initial letter, as, 700, his five. Verbals are formed from these numbers, 
as from other radicals. 
