1876.] R. B. Shaw— On the Ghalchah Languages. (Sarikoli). 159 



Added to the Perf . Participle of a Verb, this affix makes a Participial 

 Adjective which may take the place of a relative clause in English. 



Ex. mu wanj-inj ched " the house which I have seen." 

 With a substantive it has a similar effect : 



Ex. Ghed-enj adam-hhel " the people who are in the house" or " of the 



house." 

 There is an Adjectival Future Participle in ichoz. 



Ex. pigan yet-ichoz adam " the man who is going to arrive to-morrow" 

 (lit. " to-morrow about-to-arrive man"). 



PEC-NOUNS. 



The pronouns have mostly two forms, a Nominative and an Oblique 

 form, as in English. The prepositions and postpositions are applied to the 

 latter, as to Substantives, so that it is unnecessary to go through them in 

 detail here. 



Singular. Pltieal. 



1st Peeson. 



Norn, waz I mash we 



Obi. mu me mash or mash-ev us 



Nom. 

 Obi. 



Nom. 

 Obi. 



Nom. 

 Obi. 



tao 

 til 



yu 

 wi 



thou 

 thee 



yu 



wi . 



2nd Peeson. 



tamash , 



tamash or tamash-ev . . . 

 Bed Peesojst. 



he, she or it wodh 



him, her or it wief 



Adjectival Peonodns. 



that wodh 



that wi ef 



ye 



you 



they 

 them 



those 

 those 



Nom. yam this modh or dodh these 



Obi. mi or di this mef or def these 



There is, as in Wakhi, a set of personal terminations to the Past Tenses 

 of verbs, which are capable of being separated from the verb to which they 

 belong and put in other parts of the sentence. Thus they have a certain 

 claim to be mentioned among the pronouns. Perhaps we may look upon 

 them as having been originally affixed pronouns (after the manner of the 

 agglutinative languages) , which have become worn down to a certain extent, 

 losing vowels, and even disappearing and (in the case of the 2nd pers. PL) 

 giving place to a substitute ; but still retaining the recollection of their 

 origin sufficiently to be used separately. They are : 



V- 



