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singular; as " thepvoma" a man ; " thepvomako" men; " k£the " a stick, 

 " keth^ko" sticks. But when a numeral is used, the noun remains in the 

 singular, as " thepvoma pengu" five men, " kethe suru" six sticks. 



They have got a queer way of dropping the first syllable, or prefix, of 

 certain substantives, apparently for sake of euphony, when employed in the 



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body of a sentence ; thus, for instance, a dog is " tefoh", but Whose dog is 



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that ? is " Hao sopo foil ga" ; and again, a spear is " rengti", but my 

 spear is " angu", where it will be observed that the " te" in the former, 

 and the " re" in the latter example, are entirely dispensed with. 



Cases are not marked by inflection, nor by the addition of any affix, 

 except in the ablative when the particle " ki", from, is affixed. 



Adjectives appear to be invariably placed after the nouns they qualify, 

 and have no change of termination for number, case, or gender ; as " thepvo- 

 ma kevi" a good man ; " tefoh kesho kenna" two bad dogs; " chu keza" 

 a great elephant. 



The comparative degree is formed by the positive adjective being pre- 

 ceded by " ki", as " keza" great, " ki keza" greater ; and the superlative by 

 adding " shwe", " tho", or " pere", to the positive ; as " keza shwe", " keza 

 tho", or "keza pere", extremely great or greatest. 



The pronouns are as follows : 



I 



A. 



This 



Had. 



Thou 



No. 



These 



Hauko. 



He 



Po. 



That 



Lu, or Chu. 



We 



Heko. 



Those 



Luko. 



Ye 



Neko. 



Who? 



Sopo ? 



They 



Luko. 



Which ? 



Kiu? 



What? Kezipo? 



The adverbs are "ki?" where?, and " chenu" now, 

 The cardinal numbers are : 



Kerr-o-pokr. 



Kerr-o-kenna. 



Kerr-o-se. 



Kerr-o-da. 



Kerr-o-pengu. . 



Kerr-o-suru. 



Meku-pemo-thenna 



Meku-pemo-thetha. 



Meku-pemo-th^ku. 



Meku. 



1 



Po. 



11 



2 



Kenna. 



12 



3 



Se. 



13 



4 



Da. 



14 



5 



Pengu. 



15 







Surd. 



16 



7 



Thenna. 



17 



8 



Thetha. 



18 



9 



Theku. 



19 



LO 



Kerr. 



20 



21 



Meku-pokr. 



30 



Ser. 



40 



Lhi-da. 



50 



Lhi-pengii. 



60 



Lhi-suru. 



70 



Lhi-thenna. 



80 



Lhi-thetha. 



90 



Lhi-theku. 



100 



Kra. 



1000 



me. 



