OBSERVATIONS ON THE VOCABULARIES. 401 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANDINGO AND THE KISSOUR. 
Note.l. — Upon the Mandingo, 
It appears that the syllable fe is the sign of the pre- 
position upon, in, or with, and that this preposition fol- 
lows the substantive ; examples taf^, on the fire ; nefe, 
with me 3 sofe, in the village ; silaf4, on the road, &c. 
Negation is expressed by at4 or te ; yet there are 
many words of a negative sense, preceded only by a or am. 
The syllable ka seems to be used for the purpose of 
expressing to he, whether positively or interrogatively. 
The word will or to will is not in the vocabulary y 
but the phrases present an example of the use of the 
word ahegue in this sense. Besides, the vocabulary of 
Timbuctoo gives ahegue for I will. 
The relatives who, which, what, are neither indicated 
in the vocabulary nor in the phrases ; but tiez stands for 
what, in the phrase, what do you call that f 
I have added the word name, which was not in the 
vocabulary, from the three phrases, tiez tokhodi, aman 
tokholo, atokho, , , , 
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