THE SICHUANA LANGUAGE. 
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to be considered either as terminations or as prefixes. The plural 
numbers of nouns are very frequently formed in a manner which ap- 
pears reducible to no general form ; and in substituting one letter 
for another, great licences are taken, instances of which have been 
given in many parts of the foregoing pages. 
The following specimen of the Sichuana language will serve to 
exemplify the preceding remarks. 
Munona - -- ----A man. 
Moontu - -- -- -- - Men. 
Mosarri - -- -- -- -A woman. 
Bdssarri - - - - - - - Women. 
MosdfTi o Muchuana - - - - A Bichuana woman. 
Bdssarri ba-Bichuana - - - - Bichuana women. 
Mosairi o mungklje - - - - A handsome woman. 
Mununa o maashue - - • - An ugly man. 
Shu - - White. 
Makwaa mashu ------ A white man. 
Singkd kwa ------- Look there. 
U?t/co kwdanu or kwdnu - - - Come here. 
Lee ktsodnu ------- Give it me : literally ; Give liere. 
Ee Yes. 
Nia or nja ------- No. 
'Ncha A dog. 
Mancha Dogs. 
'Nchu Black, 
'Nche - - - - - - -- An ostrich. 
2^dtu - - A cowry shell, 
Lohdka - - - " - -A feather. 
Lipdka Feathers. 
''Nku A sheep, 
"Nko A house, 
^Nko - -- -- -- -- The nose. 
Klail - -- -- -- An elephant (and sometimes, by synecdoche, Ivory), 
Makldu Elephants, 
Peeri ------- Two. 
Chdrnu Five. 
Kldu tserri peeri Two elephants. 
Th or Tdu A lion. 
E tdu peeri Two lions. 
Tdu lichdrnu Five lions. 
Tsdmmo uepa lichusi - - - - Go and dig roots (small bulbs). 
Tsammd Go away. 
Tsdmma - A walkmg-stick. 
Tsdmmd e teliili A long walking-stick. 
Tsdmmd e kutsdali - - - - A short walking-stick. 
Mahdali or Mdbbdani - - - Yesterday. 
