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The Negative affixes are nh or ne and ma as in the other Ghalchah dia¬ 
lects ; ma is used with the Imperative and Optative, and nd or ne with the 
other moods. 
In compound verbs the former is used in the form of the root (some¬ 
times in the Acc. or Dative of the Verbal Substantive) and the latter in the 
appropriate Tense. 
E. g. 1. pedhed-ir sut “he went to the lighting” i. e. “began to light.” 
2. chld-sut or chld-ao sut “he went (began) to do.” 
3. dam-dhed vardlied “he is able to breathe (strike breath)” 
(Hind, dam mar saJcta'). 
N. B. The form chld-ao sut may be compared with ghiew sut “ he 
went (to) the hunt”, to show that there is nothing exceptional in the Ver¬ 
bal Substantive taking the Accusative (which is the same as the Nomina¬ 
tive,) form after the verb sut “ he went”. In both cases it is probably a con¬ 
traction for the Dative chld-ao-ird and ghiew-ird. Cf. English “ he went a 
journey”, “ he wrote me word”. The Infinitive is merely a case of the 
Verbal Substantive. With common compounds, as in Hind, before salcna 
and chuhna , or, in Persian after bdgad , tawanad , &c., the termination van¬ 
ishes and the mere root is left. 
The Numerals are : 
1 . 
one 
yiw, yi , or i 
7. 
seven 
tvuvd 
2. 
two 
dho 
8 . 
eight 
waslcht 
3. 
three 
arra'i 
9. 
nine 
ndo 
4. 
four 
tsavor 
10. 
ten 
dhls 
5. 
five 
p inz 
11. 
eleven 
dhls-et-yiw 
6 . 
six 
JchhdusJch 
15. 
fifteen 
dMs-et-pinz 
SHIGHNI STORY. 
Woi— Diregh. 
1. Roze 1 l Padskhali Wazir-katti shart i chugj. 2 Lovdj-e 8 : “ Agar 
mu’nd’ puts sod, 4 tu’nd 4 razin sod 5 khu razin mu puts-ir dhad.” Wazir- 
en 6 nastj-en 7 di kauli en 7 skhud. 2. Roze vod, Wazir-ar puts sut, et 
1 Persian. 
2 The Perfect Tense “has made” with the terminational pronoun (i) of the 3rd 
pers. sing, prefixed. 
3 The terminational pronoun of the 3rd pers. sing, here follows the verb. 
* G-enitive absolute “ of mine”, “ of thine.” 
5 3rd pers. sing. Indicative (for Conditional) of the verb sitao “to go” or “to be¬ 
come.” The meaning is, therefore, literally “ if a son of mine should become (existent), 
&c.’.’ 
6 The Plural affix of nouns, which is the same as 
7 The terminational pronoun of the 3rd pers. pi. ; the latter belonging to the verb 
skhud “ heard” (for skhud-en , like ndsj-en). Nasj is the Perfect Tense “ have sat down” 
(i. e. “ are” or “were sitting”) ; skhud is simple Past Tense. 
