24 SOME NOTES ON THE SAKAI DIALECTS, 



(v) He chip ma' lor. 



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Where [are] you going {Lit., You go to where ?). 



4 I 3 



(vi) Eng hot chip ma' ta\ 



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I [am] going up stream (Lit., I wish to go to the interior) . 



i 3 i a 3 4 5 



( vii ) He gu-i ken te nyun derk n jih. 



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Sit you upon the ground near this house, 



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(viii.) Eng pai hoi ken re. 



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I [have] just arrived from downstream, 

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(ix) la-lok me-nang eng hot chip ma' se-rak n bort chep. 



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To-morrow [my] brother will go to [the]"jungle [to] 



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catch birds. 



6 7 



(x) Bi-chul a-bat n sen-oi. 

 1 3 3 



Smoke [is] the garment [of the] Sakai. (a Sen-oi 

 1 3 3 



proverb). 



The above will, I hope, give a sufficiently clear idea of the 

 manner in which Sen-oi sentences are formed, but before 

 passing on to other matters, there are one or two peculiarities 

 of the Sen-oi dialect which I should like to mention. One is 

 the extraordinarily close resemblance which exists between 

 many words in this dialect, and which, at first, is very puzzling 

 to one who has to compile his own grammar and vocabulary 

 of these aboriginal tongues. The following examples will 



