1000 Grammatical construction of the Ho language. [No. 106. 



And to give energy to the sentence, the pronoun is repeated, with 

 the connect " do" between them, as " Eeng do eeng kajitanna," THs I 

 who speak, " Um do um kombookenna," Thou alone statest it. 



The most difficult part of their construction is in the dative and 

 accusative cases, which are absorbed in the verbs they are governed 

 by, in a manner unknown to other languages, being placed in the 

 centre of the verb, after the root, and before the tense terminal. 



As, / speak to thee, " Eeng kajimetanna ;" he spoke to me, " ayo 

 kajikedmgia ;" he spoke to them, " kajiked kodl ;" the tiger saw me 

 " koola do neldedmgia ;" he killed him, " ayo goikedaya." Here I have 

 underlined the oblique or accusative pronoun, where it comes in, just 

 before the tense terminal of the verb. 



Possessive Phonouns. 



Singular. Dual. Plural. 



1 St. Eenga* or aingia ! my alleengia allea 



2d. Umma, thy abbena appea 



3c?. Aya, his akingia akoa 



These always precede their substantives. 



PI. comp. 

 abooa 



DEMONSTRATIVe PrONOUNS. 



Singular. Dual. 



Nee or inee, this necking, these two 



Neea or ineea, of this neekingia, of these two 



Neete or ineete, to, ivith, neekingte, 

 ^c. this 



Plural, 

 niko, these 

 neekoa. of these 

 neekote, 



En, that enking, those two enko, those 



Ena, of that enkinga, of those two enkoa, of those 



Ente, by, from, with ^c. that enkingte, enkote, 



" Nee" this, is sometimes used idiomatically by a person referring to 

 himself. If a Kole were to be asked what countryman he was ? he 

 would answer, " Ho nee ge," / am; or literally, this is a Kole. Of 

 what clan are you? Answer, '' Poortee neege," I am a Poortee. 



* Pronounced, as 'mignon,' 'Ligne,' &c. in French. 



