tema'shight vocabulary.— prolegomena. 571 
been able (in the rude pronunciation to which he listened) to dis- 
criminate t from t, d from d, k from k, z from s (if there is any 
while gh was perpetually passing into k, or r. It appears to me 
still doubtful how many consonants there are in Temght ; whether 
there is any Ain, and whether there is any such distinction as the 
ts and th of the Kabail. If we knew the sounds accurately, 
certain families of words might be less confused and confusing. 
In general, the pronunciation of words presented to us by Dr. 
Barth is softer than that of the Kabail, and has a fuller and clearer 
vocalization. In one combination, indeed, the Kabail is the softer, 
and it may deserve attention : it is the English tch (written ch 
by Barth) for which he has ksh or tk. Thus the Temght ikshe, 
he ate, itkar, it is full, are in Kabail ichche, ichchur. From 
Arabic kheshen, rough, the Kab. makes ichchen, he is ugly. Again 
it has ichchah and ichcham, he was hot in anger (answering to 
Arabic and for which Barth gives the harsher sound 
itkar, meaning perhaps itkagh or itkakh. These cases are of inte- 
rest, as pointing out that the Temght has sometimes an older 
form of the word than that found in Arabic. 
F. W. NEWMAN. 
