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Mascoy to the Pilcomayo and until within recent years occupied a 
part of the Bermejo river as well. Owing to trouble with the military 
last year (1913) the last village on the Bermejo was broken up and its 
members joined their compatriota aorosa the Rio Pilcomayo. 
2. The system of spolling adopted for the Choroti, and the lcttcrs 
required serve equally well for the Chunupi-Suhin. Mr. Bride prefers 
to use an r for certain vowel sounds preceding the k. The sound is thab 
also found in Choroti which some of the Indians pronounce with an i, 
others with a u. The two following examples will illustrate the dif- 
iere neo of Pride’s spelling and my own : 
Haperk (Pride) Hapik (Huid) I go back 
Yimerk (Pride) Yimuk (Hunt) It is extinct (fire) 
Another point of spelling is that Pride adopts a k sometí mes before 
the l, which I write with th or omit, e.g. : 
Klim (Pride) Lim or thlim (Hunt) white 
Klesa (Pride) Lesa (Hunt) knife 
The general system adopted by us both agrees, any slight differences 
existing I have made uniform for compara tive purposes. 
The peculiar sound hy is equivalent to hy, fy, or sh according to 
the speaker, e.g. Hyuwekla , Fyuwekla , or Shuwekla (the moon). 
3. Unlike the lisping or affected accent of the Choroti, this language 
is forceful and olear, and uttered with no uncertainty or hesitation. 
The accent of the sentence and of individual words is more inclined to 
the final than to the penultimate syllable. 
4. I am not sufñciently c on versan t with the language to indícate 
with exactitude the eliding of vowels in the formation of various parts 
of the verb, but as a general rule vowels are added to the partióle 
rather than omitted, e.g. Noyán, gourd ; Noyán{i)taj, big gourd ; 
Sonto-(i)thmaote, bedstead of íoreigner. 
The interchange of sh and ch and others are common to this and the 
Choroti languages. 
5. As with the Choroti the possessive partióles of the thírd person 
are used as articles for words when standíng alone, and the n and p are 
used to link up sentences : 
Iih-poe na kashi, sliut the door. 
Ta tille p-atsat ? what is the ñame of your house ? 
Wethla no-fuis , five, i.e. one set of fingers. 
6. The plural number of nouns is formed exactly as in Choroti, 
but the Choroti iva termination seems to be wanting in Suhin : 
