THE SICHUANA LANGUAGE. 585 
Ueena - - - -- __ - Thee or you {acc.) 
Okaai Where? 
U e okaai - - - - - - Whither are you going ? 
« (ow) kaaka kantsintzi - - - How long shall you be gone? 
Ki kaaka kareli (or koriri) peeri - I shall be absent two months. 
U cho ekaa'i ------ Whence do you come ? 
Ki chua ko Krumani - - - - I come from the Kruman. 
Tia hoona - - -- - -- I see. 
Ke boonje klu mabaali - - - - I saw an elephant yesterday. 
Ti siila ko boono iiena or iicla - - I am come to see you. 
Lee ki boonji - - - - - - Let me see it : literally ; Give (that) I (may) see. 
Rubeetsi - -- -- -- - He sleeps. 
Ba rvheetsi ------- They sleep. 
Ki a kdana - -- -- -- I will not. 
Komo - - -- - - - - An ox ; or ' horned cattle' in general. 
Komo e namakhari ; or by syn- 
alcepha, Kome namakhari - A cow : literally ; a female ' komo.' 
Kome "nchii - -- -- -- A black ox. 
Komo tser ^'nchu ------ Black oxen. 
^Ncha e shiili mbkacha - - - The dog has burnt bis taiL 
/ k&chue p'ltsa ~ - - - - - Clean the pot. 
Pitsa e kachua riili - - - - The pot is clean. 
Pallama o Jatchara siseeshi - - - Climb (up the tree) and gather a flower. 
In giving the preceding selection, as a specimen of the Sichuana 
language, my object here is merely to exhibit its structure and some 
of its peculiarities. This I have judged to be more interesting than 
a bare list of words, from which no insight into its nature or gram- 
matical construction, could be obtained. Several examples of irregu- 
larities or, what I have supposed to be, incorrect pronunciation, may be 
seen. As the particular case which each phrase is intended to exem- 
plify, may be discovered by inspection or by a little examination, I 
have, in order to confine the subject within the limits of a summary, 
abstained from critical remarks. With respect to the pronunciation 
of these words, and the marks here made use of, sufficient explan- 
ations have already been given on different occasions * ; and to 
which a reference, if necessary, may now be made. 
The Bachapins are a people who, in almost every thing they do, 
* See pages 253, 254. 296. 303. 307, 308, and 309. of the present volume. 
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