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Suhin, Vejoz, Mojo, and Quechua ; Toba has no b, Lengua-Mascoy 
no d. 1 
4. The letters p, k, t, n are the most important consonants in 
Choroti : b, p represent the official father, the king, and male relative ; 
g, k represent the official mother, the queen, and female relative. 
These are the great letters of possession and personal relation. 
d, t represent the human father, the man, and the patriarchal 
line ; n representa the human mother, the woman, and the matriar- 
chal line. These are the great distinguishing family letters. 
5. The letter m is perhaps the greatest of all the consonants and be- 
longs to the family circle, home and mother, love and marriage, wife 
and husband. The m and w, and the m and n, are frequently inter- 
changeable, both in the one dialect and also inter-dialectally. 
6. r, l, th (ll or ly, thl). The r is wanting in Choroti, Vejoz, Lengua- 
Mascoy and Suhin, the l or th talcing its place. The th has frequently 
a reflexive use and is sometimes interchangeable with h or j. 
7. The compound letters, ch, ty, ky, sh, sy, hy, fy, fw, ph, py, nh, 
ny, kh and any otliers will be illustrated as we proceed. 
II. The Pronouns 
1. In the widest sense there are but two parts of speech : (a) the 
verb or active agent, the man ; (b) the noun or passive recipient, the 
woman. Action belongs to the man, possession to the woman, the 
partióle in consequence is often reversed. 
A-ku-me, 1 liandlo A-kyo , thy hand 
Y -ah, he dies Y-dk, my food 
2. The vowels represent primariiy person, animal, object : 
A, thou 
A-ha, egret 
A-la, tree 
I, he, she, it 
J-wo, maggot 
I-na, copse 
3. The first person of the pronoun is denoted by y (man) in the 
singular ; by s (woman) in the plural : 
YA, I 
A-yi-ne, man 
A, thou 
Y-ot, my chcst 
SA, we 
A-se-ene, woman 
ASA, ye 
S-of, our chosb 
1 Tlio loUovs b, v , nnd hu uro adopted by somo wrltors to cxpross tlio English w 
wliich is a fieijuciit sound in the Indian langungcs. 
