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Grammar of the Brahuiky Language, 



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To inanimate objects. 

 Singular. 

 Ant what 



Ara of which 



Relative pronoun. 

 Ara whichever 



Correlative pronoun. 

 Hamo that one or the same. 

 Ara ida ki juvan, e kane hamo darkar e 

 Which thing soever is good, that I require. 

 Pronominal Adjectives. 

 Amro, what sort, as, o amro bandagh ase, what sort of man is that ** 

 handunos i ut handunos ode, as I am so is he; nek rupaiye akhadr are, 

 how many rupees are about you ; akhadr ki ni tes namo khadr, i halev, 

 I will take as many as you will give ; dohko zebou zaif as khanat bazar- 

 tz, such a beautiful woman I saw in the bazar ; ki wah wahna zaif as asak 

 handanos asak ki lalana phiuii, oh ! such a woman the image of a rose. 



Days of the week. 



Juma 



Friday \ 



Shishambe 



Tuesday 



Awal i hafta 



Saturday 



Char shambe 



Wednesday 



Yek sham be 



Sunday 



Panj shambe 



Thursday 



Du sham be 



Monday 









Cardinal Numbers. 





One 



asit 



Twenty 



bist 



Two 



irat 



Twenty-one 



bist o yak 



Three 



musit 



Twenty-two 



bist o do 



Four 



char 



Twenty-three 



bist o sai 



Five 



panj 



Twenty-four 



bist o char 



Six 



shash 



Twenty-five 



bist o panj 



Seven 



haft 



Twenty-six 



bist o shash 



Eight 



hasht 



Twenty-seven 



bist o haft 



Nine 



nuh 



Twenty-eight 



bist o hasht 



Ten 



dah 



Twenty-nine 



bist o nuh 



Eleven 



yazda 



Thirty 



see 



Twelve 



duazda 



Forty 



chil 



Thirteen 



senzda 



Fifty 



panj ah 



Fourteen 



chanda 



Sixty 



s hasht 



Fifteen 



panzda 



Seventy 



haftad 



Sixteen 



shouzda 



Eighty ' 



ashtad 



Seventeen 



havda 



Ninety 



navad 



Eighteen 



hazda 



Hundred 



Sad 



Nineteen 



nozda 







Ordinals 





Fractions. 



Awal 



first 



Miskhali 



a quarter rupee 



Elo 



second 



Nem 



half 



Mustimiko 



third 



Shashai 



three quarters 



Charmiko 



fourth 



Panj pa 



one and a quarter 



Panjmiko 



fifth 





(lit. five quarters) 



Conjugation of the verb substantive. 





Present tense. 





Singular 







Plural. 



1st person I' asitut 



I am alone 



Nan asitun 



We are one 



2nd „ Ni asitus 



Thou art alone Num asitur 



3 We are one 



3rd ,, Od asite 



He is alone 



Dafk asitur 



They are one 



This is rather an example of the auxiliary verb, asit signifying one. 



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