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or pi. killed the dog(s) for me or us, ma n msudahu na n mki, you s., 

 d., or pi. killed my or our dog(s) for me or us. 



Thus it is seen that although the Taos system of personal pro- 

 nouns is elaborate and is admirable in that some of its forms have 

 fewer syllables than those of a language which uses a system like that 

 of English, yet unnecessary complexity and a surprising degree of 

 ambiguity are the defects of the system, and double usages are often 

 actually resorted to in a more or less unsuccessful attempt to avoid 

 this ambiguity. 



Bureau of American Ethnology 

 Washington, D.C. 



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