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A BRIEF SKETCH OF 



Plural endings are galu, ga, lu, maru, ru 

 their plural by adding galu to the singular, 



kegam . . kegangalu. madu 

 adu . . adugalu. natchatram 



kapanam . . kapanangalu. 



Some nouns form 

 as — 



. . madugalu. 



. . natchatrahgalu. 

 The final lu is generally omitted as in the following words : — 



udu 



. uduga. 



nak 



• nagga. 



kuhju 



. kumjuga. 



pellu 



pelluga. 

 ofiduga. 



celug 



. celugga. 



ondu 



kolu 



. koluga. 



bhujam 



bhujanga. 



mina 



. minaga. 

 . modalaga. 



6lu 



Shiga, erakalu. 



modala 



kalu 



kaluga. 



cupanam 



cupananga. 







Nouns forming their plural by adding lu — ■ 





kei 



feeilu. 



er 



Srlu. 



nai 



. . nailu. 



vasali 



vasali u. 



puna 



. . punlu. 



kiri 



kirlu. 



pandri 



. . pandiilu. 



ani 



anilu. 



ar 



. . arlu. 



eni 



enilu. 



Nouns whose plurals are formed by adding maru to the 

 singular — 



tapan 



ava 



temci 



annam 



tatam 



appa 



tapamavu. 



avamaru. 



temcimaru. 



annamaru. 



tatamaru. 



appamaru. 



akkamaru. 



tevisi 



pondu 



monagam 



maganu 



I^etam 



peti 



tevisimaru. 



pondumai'u. 



monagamaru. 



makkamaru. 



petamaru. 



petimaru. 



Nouns forming their plural by adding ru to the singular- 



Gender. 



This language has no grammatical gender, as there are no 

 terminations for the masculine and the feminine. The neuter 

 noun stands for all the three genders. 



The neuter singular suffix is ad and the plural suffix is ayyalu, 

 vdradu, varayyalu. However the gender is denoted by (1) differ- 

 ent words, (2) by prefixing to the words denoting gender, as — 



pondu 

 tefici 



avalakeruvu 



monagam. 

 tevisi. 



paidikeruvu. 



Case. 



As in Sanskrit and Telugu there seem to be eight cases in the 

 Yerukala language. The case terminations appear to be pure 



