IN ITS LINGUISTIC AND ETHNOLOGICAL RELATIONS. 



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on to ten, which is compounded of biama two, and akkabu hands. Would they count eleven, they say abba kutihibena 

 one [toe] from the feet, and for twenty the expression is abba lukku one man, both hands and feet. Thus, in truth, 

 they have only four numerals, and it is even a question whether these are primitive, for kabbuhin seems a strength- 

 ened form of abba, and bibuli to bear the same relation to Mama. Therefore we may look back to a time when this 

 nation knew not how to express any numbers boyond one and two. 



Although these numbers do not take peculiar terminations when applied to different objects, as in the languages 

 of ( !entral America and Mexico, they have a great variety of forms to express the relationship in which they are used. 

 The ordinals are : 



atenennuati, 



i biama Ueli, 

 wak&bbuhinteti, 

 To the question, TTow many at a time',' the answer is : 



likinnekowai, 

 biamanuman, 



If simply, How many? it is : 



abbahu, 



biamahu, 



If, For which time? it is : 



first. 



second. 



our third, etc. 



one alone. 



two at a time, etc. 



one. 

 two. 



tibiakuja, 

 tibiamatt<Stu, 



for the first time. 

 for the second time. 



and so on. 



VERBS. 



Thejerbs are sometimes derived, from nouns, sometimes from participles, sometimes from other verbs, and have 

 reflexive", passive, frequentative, and other firms. Tims from lana, the name of a certain black dye, comes lannatiin 

 1.0 color with this dye, alannatunna to color oneself with it, alannattukuttun to let oneself be colored with it, alanatlu- 

 kllttunnua to be colored with it. 



The infinitive ends in in, Un, An, tin, unnua, in, and An. Those in in, Un, !,n, and &n are transitive, in unnua 

 are passive and neuter, the Others are transitive, intransitive, or neuter. 



The passive voico is formed by the medium of a verb of permission, thus : 



amalitin, 



amalitikittin, 



amalitikittunnua, 



assimakin, 



assimakuttiin, 



assimakuttunnua, 



The personal pronouns are united to th 



to make, 

 to let make. 



to be made. 

 to call, 

 to lot call, 

 to be called. 



.lie verbs as they arc to the nouns. They precede all verbs except those 

 whose infinitives terminate in in, in, and tin,, to which they are suffixed as a rule, but not always. When they follow 

 the verb, the forms of the pronouns are either de, bu, i he, n she, it, u, hn, je or da, ba, la, la, ma, ha, na. The latter 

 are used chiefly where the negative prefix m>, ma or maya is employed. Examples : 



hallikebbede, 

 hallikebbebn, 



hallikebben, to rejoice. 



I rejoice, 

 thou rejolcest. 



