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kw sounds of difficult utterance. The plural is formed by the suffix -t, pre- 

 ceded by the reduplicated vowel of the radical syllable ; this points to a 

 law of vocalic harmonization observed also in other Central Californian 

 languages and not unlike the one observed in the Dravidian and Uralo- 

 Altaic lano'uao'e-families of Asia. 



THE SA^TA BARBARA STOCK. 



In want of a national historic name applicable to all the tribes that 

 speak these dialects, I have used the above as a momentary help. The 

 uncertainty in which we are concerning the geographic area and the sub- 

 divisions of this stock renders the publication of 0. Loew's vocabulary in 

 its present form doubly desirable, for none of the materials published here- 

 tofore could be fully relied on by competent investigators. The phonetic 

 habitus of the language is rather consonantic, and most words end in con- 

 sonants ; the distributive plural in the verb and in the substantive is formed 

 by duplication of the first syllable. 



In the Annual Report of 1876, Appendix H 16, 1 have given my reasons 

 for believing that San Antonio (Telam^) and San Luis Obispo may possi- 

 bly belong to this same family, for out of fifty or sixty words known, about 

 fourteen were found to agree with corresponding terms of Kasua, Santa 

 Barbara, and Santa Cruz Island. 



As far as known the dialects are as follows : 



La Purisima, spoken around the Mission La Purisima Concepcion de 

 la Virgen, on Sa Inez River, founded in 1787. 



Santa Inez, spoken by the Alahulapas around Santa Inez Mission, 

 which was founded in 1804. 



Santa Barbara, the dialect of the Silpalils, Aswalthatans, &c, along the 

 coast and around Santa Barbara Mission, founded in 1786 by the Padre Palou. 



Kasua, the dialect of Indians living at Kasua or Cieneguita ("little 

 marsh"), three miles north of Santa Barbara Mission. 



Mugu, spoken at Point Mugu, on the outlet of Canada Creek, Lat. 34° 8'. 



Santa Cruz Island, an isle once inhabited by Indians related to those 

 of the adjoining mainland. It is probable that dialects of the same family 

 were formerly spoken in the whole northwestern part of the archipelago, 

 though we have no historical evidence to that effect. 



