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1877.] 
IT. B. Shaw— On the Shighni (Glialdiali) Dialect . 
anduid. Wazir-bachah deid. Lovd : “ Mu badi tar hak-i-tu cbiz ?” 41. 
Lovd : “ Hecb cbiz-atb nai; biyar at tu lovd, wuz am bawar na child. Tu 
gap rast vudbj. Yat, mash sbicb kbu ghiew chid-ao la-kinam. Cbiz 
makri bila kinam ki wi gbor dedbam. Tanab-i-abreskhamin tebam.” 42. 
Cbil gaz tanab en tebt. Sabar ab nahor en child, rawan en sut tar pond. 
Wazir-bachah lovd-e Wuz dedham.” Ala-aspa lovd: “ Kbub, tu takat 
na vardhe.” Ba’d firebt-en yum-ande. Kamand wi baghal-ande sakbbt i 
cbud. Wedhde, ta zan-its sut, lovd-e : “ Pacb ! sukhtam.” 43. Ala-aspa 
kamand tizd-e, lovd : “ Eb Wazir-bacbab ! naubat mu’nd. Yi nasihat tu’rd 
kinam. Waz lov-am : ‘ Pacb ! sukbt-am’ tu sust-de b9 la-kin.” Ala-aspa 
wedbd-e. Lovd-e: ‘ Pacb! sukbt-am !’ Yii sust-de la-cbud. Al-kissa 
kbel-i-wakbbt nagbjid, tanab wi mi dhost kot reid. Yii tar bir-jahan, tar 
Cbildinia, firebt. Tanab az kbu bagbal-ti khalas cbud. Ba’d yem Wazir- 
bacbab wi gbor gbaiv-ti gulkban wedbd-e. 
44. Ala-aspa rawan sut, mal az parao dicbar wi’r yet. Az chupan 
duba i cbud, lovd : “ Eb ! yem mal cbi ’nd ?” Chupan lovd-e : “ Yak- 
wajabi ’nd.” Yii firebt yi yirk i injuvd, rub-i-bawa wi kal i zokbt. Yi 
sekbb kabab az wi-ti kbu’rd i child. Kabab i pekbt, kbbud-e, dedb tuid. 
45. Ba’d stor-dar az parao yet. Duba i child, lovd-e : ££ Yem stor cbi ’nd ?” 
Yii lovd-e : “ Yak-wajabi ’nd.” Yii sut, ki az wi katta-de skbij nai, ikwi 
injuvd ; 48 wi kal i zokbt. Yi sekbb kabab az wi-ti kbu’rd i child. Wi digar 
i pattewd. Chupan dhad yi skhkufta kbu pis-pits. 46. Yii rawan sut, 
ghayat jai sut, skhtur-ban dicbar wi’r dhad. Duba i child, lovd-e : “ Yem 
skbtur chi’nd.” Yii lovd-e : £C Yak-wajabi ’nd.” Yii sut, ki az wi katta-de 
bughra 16 nai, ikwam injuvd. Wum kal i zokbt. Yi sekhb kabab az wi-ti 
kbu’rd i child, khu rawan sut. Sarwan 1 de kbu pis-pits. 47. Yii tiiid. 
Galla-ban wi’r dicbar yet. Duba i child, lovd-e : “ Yem galla cbi’nd ?” 
Sut, i katta vorj injuvd, wi kal i zokbt. Yi sekbb kabab az wi-ti kbu’rd i 
cbud. Yii galla-ban de kbu pis-pits. 48. Yii tiiid ; tar skhar firebt. 
Ivhazinachi darvaza-ande nustj. 49 Yii lovd-e : “ Tu yunde cbi’r 50 kini ?” 
Yunde parindab dam-dbed na vardbed.” Lovd-e : “ Har cbiz ved, ba nasib- 
-i-kbu am yet.” 49. Ala-aspa wi pekhste ££ Yak-wajabi jan cbiz damn ?” 
Lovd-e : “Nurdhoroz 1 sut, yii pa tlr-dinya vod, az-um zakbhmi yet. Shicb 
skhovdj. 49 Wi jan wi pis-pale, dbo zir, yiw az mi pale, yiw az wi pale. 
Wief ziren varagh. Az wi damn dbo ksbebts naskhtist. Wie£ kalen tar 
chap skbchand. Wi pis pale yi math, wi dha tar zan, varagb. Wi damn 
48 Lit. u tliat tlian it (there was) no larger hull, that same (one) he seized.” The 
Sighni mode of expressing the superlative. 
49 Both these verbs being verbs of action not of condition or state {viz. to sit down 
s’asseoir “to go to sleep”, s’endormir, and not “to he sitting,” “to sleep”), our Present 
Tense in their case is represented in Shighni by the Perfect, viz. “ he has sat down” = 
“ he is or was sitting” ; “ he has gone to sleep”, “ he is asleep or sleeping.” 
