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of Eastern TurJcistdn. 
Reflective Pkonoijn : oz = self, is used instead of the Demonstra¬ 
tive or Possessive Pronoun when this pronoun refers to the person or thing 
which is the subject of the sentence [like the use of Jchud in Persian, and 
dp, apna in Hindustani]. The Reflective Pronoun is affected by the pos¬ 
sessive affix of each person, and by the post-positions, where necessary ; 
and if it is governed in the genitive by a noun, that noun takes the posses¬ 
sive affix of the same person : 
Ex. : bz-om-ning at-im = my own horse, 
self my of horse my 
bz-ongiz-ning yort-lar-ingiz-ga — to your own countries, 
self your of country (pi.) your to 
Sometimes the possessive termination and the genitive post-position 
are omitted from the oz. 
Ex. : oz ikhtiyar-im — my own choice, for bz-om-ning ihlitiyar-im. 
When used merely like the word “ self” in English, it takes the pos¬ 
sessive terminations before the post-positions (if any) just like a noun. 
Ex. : oz-om — myself ; bz-om-ning = of myself, bz-om-ga = to my¬ 
self, &c. 
oz-bng — thyself ; bz-bng-ning = of thyself, oz-bng-ga — to thyself, 
&c. 
oz-i — himself ; oz-i-ning = of himself ; oz-i-ga = to himself, &c. 
\_Note. —The oz being thus treated exactly like a substantive, suggests 
the possibility of its being merely a contraction of yuz — face ; viz. “ my 
face” for “myself.”] 
CHAPTER Y. 
THE VERB. 
All verbs in Turki, both primary and derivative ones, active or passive, 
<fcc., are conjugated on precisely the same model. One might cut out the 
radical part of any verbal form, and substitute that of any other verb for 
it, and, with the exception of trifling phonetic changes, the conjugational 
frame-work would fit on to the new as well as it did on the original verb- 
root. 
The radical portion of the verb suffers no internal alteration whatever. 
The conjugation is entirely effected by various affixes which convey the 
necessary changes of application. 
