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Infinitive Mood. 



Japacho, aoristic as usual. 



Participles. 



1st in ba, Japaba, who feeds or will or did feed. 



2nd in chome, Japacbome, feedable, whom or with what any one feeds or will 

 feed. 



3rd in na, Japana, fed, whom or with what any one has fed. 



4th in roe, Japadume, &c. 33 forms. Feedable by me; whom or with what I 

 feed or will feed, &c. 



5th in me, Japatongme, &c. 33 forms. The fed of me ; whom or with what 

 I fed, &c. 



JV. B. — 1 — 3 are impersonal, as before : 4 — 5 are personated. 



Gerunds. 



Impersonated of the present and future. None. 

 Impersonated of the past, Japaso, or Japasomami. 



Personated present. 



1st in na, Japaduna, &c. 33 forms. 

 2nd in na, Japatongna, &c. 33 forms. 



Personated past. 

 1st in ko, Japaduko, &c. 33 forms. 

 2nd in ko, Japat6ngko, &c. 33 forms. 



Specimen of the Kiranti language (Bdhing dialect). 



Kwong miiryeu bdpo ke di bretha lata. Gyekhopaso bretha 

 dajana. Wa kbyim di kwoag miiryeu, rasogno bwaktako, wa ming 

 nuug dwangmose. Go barem gyanaiyo ma tagna, syti, syii. Tke 

 Dyau asra jajulso, myem sicho, lama, daso, binti* papta. 



Mokoding hopomi barem kwdng vi nyiiba gyawa dyampattame 

 sisi giptako chyanta, yem sisi i ming giptako, syuyo ma giwo, daso, 

 lopaso, giwo. Harem mdryeumi myem kbogno papta. Hopomi yo 

 cbivvacba dau bretamiko chyantarni. Syuke di riuyuba gyawa rinain, 

 myem radio. 



Mekeding ryammpo bela* kwosomami ming ke di dita. Myem 

 mingmi wadi rinyuba gyawa khlyakti giptako mdcbo preusta, mara 



* N. B. — Nyau, asra, binti, and bela are Hindi terms having no precise equiva- 

 lents in the Kiranti tongue ; though it would be easy to turn the phrases so as 

 to replace them by pure Kiranti terms I leave them as samples of a process every 

 where going on in the Central Himalaya whose still primitive languages will pro- 

 bably in time become fust mixed and then obsolete. 



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