APÉNDICE B 
CHOROTI 
WORD FORMATION AND PARTIOLES 
In the Lengua-Mascoy language there is a clearly de fine d man’s and 
woman’s speech, which is consistent throughout from the personal 
pronouns down to the veriest partióle, and in a less marked degree 
the same ielea is evident in Toba, Mojo, the Quechua, anel the Chaco 
dialects under review. Owing to the absence of a clear gender system 
in Choroti, I must use tho Lengua-Mascoy as a base, with Toba and 
Mojo as supports, for this study, and whether the interpretation be 
right or wrong, the method adopted will be a help to the understand- 
ing of the formation of words and the uses of the partióles. 
I. The Letteks 
1. The vowels are of first-rate importance both from the stand- 
point of radicáis and pronominal partióles, anel considering all their 
various uses the primal meanings seern to be : — 
a, father and ancestors i, man and individual 
e, mother and dcscendants o, wonian and wholo 
u, unión ; husband and wife ai, person, lineage, tribe 
2. Closely associated with the vowels are the letters h, tv, y, s. 
Treating the a as an absoluto letter, i.e. both vowel and consonant ; 
we havo tho y as equivalent to the i, and the/ or Mías consonantal form 
of the u, particularly in both cases when preceding a vowel. The 
h or j is antithetical to the y , and in some dialects is the substitute 
for e, so it is convenient to place it with that letter, and the s with the o, 
the s being the plural of both y and h, and in the Sanapana dialect of 
the Lengua-Mascoy the s takes the place of the initial o ; S-tákhek for 
O-tákhek, I (will) return. 
3. The three primary consonants b, q, d, are wanting in Choroti, 
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