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1877.] R. B. Shaw —On the Shiyhni ( Ghalchah) Dialect. 
The set of separable terminations or pronouns belonging to the Past 
Tenses of Verbs is more perfect and normal than in Wakhi and Sarikoli. 
Singular. Plural. 
1. am or um am 
2. at et 
3. i or e en 
These terminational pronouns are used precisely like common pronouns 
(nominative only) ; hut they can be placed immediately after the verb (as 
terminations) as well as in other parts of a sentence and in addition to the 
ordinary personal pronouns. The Past Tenses which employ them seem not 
yet to have reached the purely inflectional stage. 
VERBS. 
The conjugation of the Verbs resembles the Sarikoli more than the 
Wakhi. The Infinitive is in ao, and the declension of the Verbal Substant¬ 
ive is effected with the Root (deprived of the ao) as well as with the full 
Infinitive form. In other words the Nominative and Accusative of the 
Verbal Substantive add the syllable ao to the Root form, and other cases 
add their own respective terminations either to the Root or to the Nom. 
form. 
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB ‘ TO TAKE’. 
(i.) Root form: zekht; (ii) Present form : zez; (iii) Past form : 
zokht. 
Verbal Substantive ; Nom. and Acc. cases : zelcht-ao 
the taking 
Gen. 
zekht\ 
of taking 
Dat. 
zekht-ir 
zekhtao-ir 
| to or for taking 
Abl. 
az zekht 
from taking 
Loc. 
zekhtao-te 
on or in taking 
zekht-its 
whilst taking 
ta zekhtao-ir till taking 
IMPERATIVE. 
zez or zeze take thou 
zez -id take 
y e 
INDICATIVE 
MOOD. 
Present Future Tense. 
S. 1. ZEZ-am (in some verbs, -um ),..., 
2. zEZ-e (in some verbs, -ye) . thou takest 
3. zez-^ . he takes 
PL 1. TiEZ-am . we take 
2. zez-A? (in some verbs, -yid) . ye take 
3. zez -in (in some verbs, -yin) . they take 
