4FFEN9IZ TQ SEC. 6 OF CRAP, V., FA&T XE. 



• B 



One. 



A (a) wft-hi-rf, wa-hi-rfrt, n-hH-rf, B-khR-<l mtuc. wn-hUda^fat t- 

 kim-dfi /em. Araljin, tvkhnef masr., n-khn-t fem, HeUrew, khuif 

 tnfi/w , klia-ffei fern iThalflen, hlin-rfi, a-^/*it! Tigr^^, hlm-cf Harragf^ 

 Atid Amhiiric. Tho root in thesp fur run is hi. ha. khn, n, varialionB of 

 the -emiticti-LEhiystn df^fiiiitis-e^ a\id the uther variation*, ai, li 

 were (totibttcMS arclmicBlly f^itriTnt us Ihs unit 



(fr), tH-Mi ^wtirMli, Gara, u-t iirin Mum. From the analog J7 of 

 tr-b»-tM?, 4, thn aimlysii b olearlv ihe norrect one It the root lia» no 

 f etliga or th*'' liiKiMl, it m the '^erairiiru-Lilt jarv dental cfefiaiiive, nJso 

 occtirnntf in tb»^ Hibtliint form In tbe bijjber 'NJiiiuita- Egyptian nurneraJa, 

 ftti»i tn tli<J ilf^ntiil (»nij in t!ip Ki,'yjtti«n 6 



(e}. uo-t (or 11-ot) Ejfj'fiiian, (aIt*o u-ai, u-a, u-ei, a-i, comp^ lh« 

 demon!»trfttive at, ei, i, in pai» taf, nai See) 



Ifthe gottural atj«l aspirate in (a) be tbtj rotit ^bi, kUa, ba) and tha 

 srowel or bibinl a, e) a in^re augment or prffijt, it must be ranked 

 with the Himyftiitic ta an<J Egyptian t, bflc«U8ft in Semittco-Libynu 

 tbe aspiratf^ and Eiif»urn! rlefiaiiite and unit pasaea into tbe siibibiut anil 

 dent.»l, U\ th*> •r*mltic 5 tlie unit ref'urg in tbo aapirnte guttural ibrm. 

 In the allied Stsytliic aystf nja tbegutturrtl» denial, sibilant Ac, appears 

 to have had an independent detiiiitivu puwer eveu wheu liOstfixed to tbo 

 labial 



, In Africa tbe aipirale, sibllnnt. dpntal anri guttural definitive also oo 

 cur^ as ibe unit in arfiordanrp vvifh what we have tnflicated as its baio 

 Semitic range. E-*'n in thf* j^aiof gr*iui> the coiisonant aisuu4e« dii- 

 ierent loroia. Thus in tlrR Gono^n group we have. — 



i-ta, t>«o, i-!^ta, i-ka. i^-koe. Tn tbiA ilouble form the Rnal 

 .element not to be' oonnidered a<} a (lostfix, bfi'ause the dt>fiiittife it<<elf 

 occ-urt in the sntne flotibia turrn, anJ thn initial ['lenient ratbrr than ths 

 final appears co bp a servile. In tbe EgyhtiaQ 3d jironi'un^ ^n-tu-^ Tnasc* 

 tfn-tu-f, ea-te-j, few., tbt* nasal is prefixuHl aa in the 2d and pro- 

 pouui*, anil fhp dental i^ttbe radical deiitiitive aa in ta, ti, te^ *'tbe",_/(jn». 

 But in definitive** and unit'4 ih»» profit beinji ii^elf ilefinttive bi)(h e!e- 

 inrnts mav be conHi lered rndiiiRl, 'i'hn unit ifigeueraNy not a single tiefi* 

 nitive liTit a ditu^iie or inteiiMtve on^e, bi ing a numeral application ol'a de«* 

 iQOnAirfitivf or 3d pri>[ionn rn wliitib two df>fiuitive!4 are uMimlly com* 

 bined. The recurrence o> th«* dt^ntal definitive, variable to tbe guttural, 

 lis a po«itfix in bi^lier nHtobt^^ra 111 i)|<i,gt of tbe Nilotic languages doen 

 pot Hpitt'ar i*i re<bjee it to a mere pn^tRir in 1 and raise the tuitlal el^ 

 inent to ihf cbararter of tbe nole m it root. 



In some of I be other Nilnttc languages the Snitial elttnent a^sumet 

 its full iiaHul tbrin 9.* in the pronoun:*. Dauakil in-ikf, Hhlho fU'^ekf 

 Bifbarye engfat or en-ga% Tumali ,in-ra Theif are cl*"ar ve&Mgra^ 

 found frona tbe Hied *Sea to the westera |iortioD of the Nilotie iirovince^ 



• In App A I bp vowel uf tlm tdulklmyt^^^eily mytnatsd iiom 

 it and carried to the imt^x* 



