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Egidda, truly. Inkolo, where ? 



Supag, now, immediately. So, here. 



Leko, again. Una, there. 



Ladipo, always. Aralo, within. 



Silo, to-day. Lulo, without. 



Iyampo, to-morrow. Anindo, near. 



Moilo, yesterday. Mordo, far. 



R616, early. Menape, quickly. 



Roualo, in the morning. Dengum, slowly. 



Yummalo, in the evening. 

 The idiom of the language is the same as that of the Bhotia, and the 

 same latitude allowed in the structure of sentences as is common to all 

 transpositive languages. 



Short Sentences. 



Nog amine akan ? What is your name ? 



Ngog amine Kumolie, My name is Kumdli. 



Nog baba inkolo ? Where is your father ? 



Ekum arangesi babae dang. Father is in the house. 



Ele amie aida. That is a good man. 



Sek ene ioksik se ? Whose knife is this ? 



Bii gidingki ngo ekiem pake-tabang. He has killed my dog with 

 a spear. 



Achyalo kupak toka. Throw it into the water. 



Achyalo anga dang. Fish live in the water. 



Ede idiko site dang ne ? How many elephants are there there ? 



Asare airupe sardag. The wind bloivs very hard. 



Esi amie akolu dang ne ? What does this man say 1 



Ngomapin adjyoko bilang ka. Give me a little rice. 



Ngogke mangke. It is not mine. 



Asope dutoka. Sit quietly. 



For the sake of comparison I have here annexed a brief vocabulary 

 of each of the languages we have had under review. I could wish they 

 had been made more copious, or that I had had some model to act up- 

 on whereby they might have been rendered more valuable for ready and 

 effective comparison. Should leisure and opportunity, however, admit 

 of my pursuing the line of research I have now taken up, I hope at 

 some subsequent period to be able to furnish more copious, and I 



