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APPENDIX IV. 
A VOCABULARY OF THE TEMA^SHIGHT OR TA^RKFYE, 
SUCH AS SPOKEN BY THE AWELFMMIDEN. 
A SHORT PROLEGOMENA, BY PROFESSOR NEWMAN. 
The materials accumulated by Dr. Earth, enable us to give a 
more distinct reply to the question : What relation does the Tema- 
shight (abbreviated in future as Temght) language bear to the 
idiom of the Kabail of Mount Atlas, and to the Shilha of Mo- 
rocco ? The replies hitherto given have seemed to a great autho- 
rity, the Baron de Slane, premature, and, therefore, arbitrary. 
I will try to write as one recapitulating facts, so far as I can 
discern facts, throwing the remarks under separate heads : — 
1. The system of Pronouns in the Temght differs sufficiently 
from that of the Kabail, to put a broad separation between the 
languages. The Baron de Slane has already given a valuable 
table, comparing the Pronominal system in the (so called) Berber 
tongues ; and there is nothing to be added to this. Temght does 
not diflfer more decisively from Kabail in this respect, than each 
differs from Shilha, &c. Nevertheless, in the midst of the diver- 
sity, appear obvious and decisive marks of common origin. In 
fact, the suffixed pronouns differ but little. 
2. The Numerals, in so far as they are not superseded by 
Arabic, are fundamentally the same in all. 
3. So far as Plural nouns can be formed regularly from the 
singular, the two languages seem to observe substantially the same 
rules. 
4. The mode of Conjugating the principal tense of the Verb, has 
no greater diversity in the Temght and Kabail than that found 
between mere dialects of the same language. 
The modes of forming the Present Tense are perhaps imperfectly 
understood as yet in all these tongues. 
It is on the surface of the Kabail, that a Present Tense is formed 
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