326 Languages of the various tribes inhabiting the [April, 



Ira dehiek phangsan jo, that woman is very handsome. 

 Xra arima asan linjo, that fruit is exceedingly nice. 

 Numerals. 

 The numeral system of the Namsangiyas is emphatically decimal — 

 of the ten fingers. Thus they count. 



1. Vanthe. 3. Vanram. 5. Banga. 7. Tng-it. 9. Tkhu. 



2. Vanyi. 4. Beli. 6. I'rok. 8. Tsat. 10. Ichi. 

 and then throwing their fingers in an imaginary heap they exclaim, 

 Ruak, a decade. 



11. Tchi vanthe, 10+1. 20. Ruak nyi, two decades. 



12. Ichi vanyi, 10+2. 30. Ruak ram, three decades. 



13. Ichi vanram, 10+3, &c. 40. Ruak heli, four decades. 



and so on till they come to Cha, a hundred. 



100. Cha-the. 300. Cha ram, &c. 



200. Cha-nyi. Cha ichi, ten hundred or 1000. 



Of Pronouns. 



The personal pronouns are, Nga, I ; Nang, thou ; and Ate, he, she, 

 or it. As the pronoun, is next to the verb, the most important part of 

 speech, and that from which the verb chiefly derives its precision, we 

 find in this language the use of distinct terms to express the plural 

 number. They are, Nima, we ; Nema, ye ; and Sening, they. 



In, what we have termed, the oblique form, these pronouns take the 



particle Nang after them, as in the case of nouns. 



Nganang. Nangnang. Atieng, 



Nimanang. Nemanang. Seningnang. 



Atieng, appears to be merely a contracted form of Ate-nang, the one 

 term is as commonly used as the other. 



The possessive pronouns are T, my or our ; Ma, thy or your ; and A, 



his, or their. They are invariably used before the nouns with which 



they are connected. 



Xrapa i lah, this (is) my kite 



Mama va ngyong-nang veo, honour thy father and mother. 



In this sentence the first syllable ma, is the pronoun, the second 



euphonic particle. 



Anappa ajun jo, his hair (is) very soft. 

 The particle rang, is often added to the above pronouns. 



I'rang mok itonga, the horse is mine. 



A'rang hum itonga, the house is his. 



