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ETBffOLOeT OF TBS lKDO>PAGlPtC liLANOfl, 



kha-m-is kc. But the. vawel of the initial w the ardMiic Smito-Africafl 

 U of the. definitive and nnit (hu, au, tu in the iV. AiVicnn tbrrn of the 



Semifcje Au-ma The origrJHftl of the m farai, ia all it-s varieties, ii 

 the Siimto-litiyan f^r.tmnl. dftrital or sihilant tliffiiiitive aiid unit jl* ftppMed 

 to 5j fdlliiwcd I>v ihf* lahial or masculine jiOi'fflx, and in some caaei 

 with siu|>("nid(J«J jHjHtfixes of numiitT or gender. 



(c.) ku-dJi-nu, Ivu-du-n Galla;thid aiiiH»ars to he du-n &c. of * (the 

 ZimlMiiH 5 ), w itJi t)u' ^nittural pretixed, lie Dalla quUa kudde oonjpiiii 

 tiie Gal] a t<?im with luiother, 



B. ia.) wwH-ku-3 Shangftlk. (5 in the common Himyaro-Nilotic 3 

 form, Spjr 5, A. ^/l) ^ 



(tt,) elii-ka Shaii^rana.., Apiu, t.><i-krit su-ka Agnu, ta-cha Gon^a (ib.)' 



C. The root for 2 only is jtrosen ed in a Iar<re uumlier nf the vocft- 

 bularieHi, hiire -S uljifli), fijri|r-eu Tumah, win^ Daifur (ia 1*0, 'M &cO, mer- 

 aua DerWr, niar-uw f^hillah, mnr-uu Karidiii, [mar-kum. 2, 5 Tihbo];; 

 Landoraa maran, Jloko frr- h-W(TO [r-vuo Nf^roola must !« S), fi!(!-bua, bo, 

 e-vort, t-vuu, ifi'Vu^ di^xm Ike, ulcere is pveu as 11, hut it y used 03 10 

 iiihi<rher nuinhprpl, ydnh wuiii, wuuiu, nwum, MIh' ivura, ^'so vum, Tiwi 

 tiufi, Konf^-UHU hiu (2 in llaiwn)* Atam (Cha<Jdrt-M^er) wonjo, ewuwo, 

 ijnfo, oTiofi, opii, hi», Biaiadii «vj-]joj|io, Tadsade NiUu ^t'-bele, 

 W. or U|»jtor Ni^^eriaii fe-r, hi-ru, fu-rii, fu, li, Lower i\. i-li, i*ii, ig'-b^ 

 Kuti e-wo, ji-wiij, Sec. 



The Aku-Igiila me-wa, e-wa apiwara to be the douhle prefix of £h« 

 Ziinhiiin *J. 



Tlie ^Iiilag-nfiy vu-hi, pti-hi, ^^oko is a fall ft»nn of the Zimbian 2, 

 similar to .the a{\iiieent t^. E- Zimhiani mu-Io, W. Zimbian bu-olj l>o-l ice. 



In tJie Grebo pr. ^u, pu, pue ajnunir!* to rei^resent 5 and not- 2, 

 hue (2, ^) oet'urrin^ in Glw. litJiice the Mtmdinpttn pu, pu-,(5K>, pfuo, 

 fu may al^o atarui for 5. (Tlie otiif r rurreut term tan is 5). In tlie inmt 

 westt>rji niu^p the Mnni]m wan in 5 ' mnn). 



Hudan bhn-ktd Fikn. bum-bad Kiirekare 2, 5, (bad 6, bi 2 is Eimb,). 



The Bulanda //-fad nig7i ta-rfihi in *'fi and 4." 



Tlie Bidsofi'ij worn ap> i.n probablv 2^ 3. 



Tlie Wolofffuk appears to be releruble not to fog 1 (Nfut &c.) but to 

 fut &e. 2. 



The Zimbian tenn is of upper Nilotic orifjin. The full farm mulo-fft 

 Matatan, mar-ku-ra Tibbo, has a Nilotic form of 3, and the 5 in also 

 HimyBTO-Nilotie in ita vowel, tvi-m &c. MliPW the forms tu-mun, ku-nii, 

 were' adopted by the Nilotic voeahularie-*, it in probable that a ^limilar form 

 was current in that of the Semitic colonists from whom it was derived. The 

 vowel of the common Zimbian form ku-rai i;* that of the Hebrew and 

 Balivhmian kha-nii. The DalJa su-me ft and E^plian sho-me 8 hai 

 both vuweLs. Shiho has them in 10 also, tu-be-u, atul it is pi-obable tliat 

 E^'pt iiiii had I*oth sho and Aim in 1*1, «a in 5 aiid 3. From the persif^tenc* 

 of tlie «-m, t-m, k-m form iti the Nilotic vo«nbulariet», and particularly in 

 Ejrv'i'tijin, for 3, 5j & and 10, it may be coneluded that it was the p'rin- 

 cifial form of the oldest Hemitic ooloniste of the Nile. 



The m-r, m-lj W kc. form of 2 ii* probably of the same a^e, as it is the 

 couunun upjier Nilotit; and Zimbim) form for 2, and apj«ai3 to have been 

 twsociated with the s>-m, k~m form of 5, 



The tr~n, k-n, s-l, a-r ke. form of 3, 5, and 10 probably betaime 

 the prkcipal tuna of a leading ^mitic imtiun at a kter period. As 3 it 



