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REPORT — 1847. 
In the Berber language the inflexional elements generally come after tia 
root; in other words they are <^xes. 
This value of a distinction of this kind, between the methods of infiexiflid 
formation in different languages, is certainly of no great importance. 
Several welUknown languages illustrate this, by cases similar, though M 
parallel: 
1. The Syriac postfixes the article which the Hebrew prefixes. 
2. The Scandinavian languages postfix the article which the Gemw* 
languages prefix. 
3. The Scandinavian languages affix the l•oflcctive pronoun to the 
which the Germanic languages prefix—German, sich schamen^iobtoshii*^^ 
Icelandic skama siff ; and, later, skumasc, ska/nast, shamas, skames. Soak 
with the article. 
4. Differences like the one indicaterl are differences of degree only, not rf 
kind. On« of the points wherein the old Egyjitian of the hieroglrphie 
differs from the Coptic is in the cliaiige from affixes to prefixes. “Undo 
differences lea plus marquees du dialecte sacr6 avee la langue Copte c® 
siste en cc ijuc la plupart dcs termlnaisons grumniuticales qui autrefois furta 
postpobtes aux subsUiiitives ct aux verbes se trouveut preposees dansh 
languc Copte, 
“ Le verbo /i=donner, cst par constlquent conjugu^,— 
Kx lliEROGI.YPIUQUE, En COPTK, 
ti-ci a-ti 
t\-k (ou ti-t) ^-ti 
t»-/ /-ti 
j-ti 
?j'-ti 
tetn'-t\ 
se-ii 
“Le proiioin personnel se place en hieroglyphes apr^s, eii Copte avani- 
p-shajre-t ^^a-shocre 
p-shsere-A /Je-k-shasre 
p-shrere;/’ ;oe-f-shajre 
juc-8-sliQsre 
/>e-n-sb{Bre 
/>c-ten-sh{Bre 
^-ore-shaere 
ti-x 
ti-?^ 
ti-nt 
je donne. 
til donnes. 
it dome, 
elk donne. 
nou.s donnons. 
V 0 U 8 dormez. 
ils donnent. 
p-shffire-j 
p-sh®re*B 
p-shaere-^tt 
p*shaere-^7i 
mon fils. 
(on fih. 
son Jils (in). 
son jils (f). 
notre fih. 
votre Jils. 
kur JUs!' 
Lettre, et Jkssd 
rcanirraloV''”™' >" ‘his department of philological 
tI at Z. L . -h"" by the following crc< 
Ilk? Swi C- Tatachek’s, whose GallaS"^ 
pWloWi '^^ « ‘he w«fc of a sound < 
are statement that, in the Galla language, die 1 "^^ 
S^teS f we find that tL frequeats.;^^ 
cation • ‘h’noted by vrhnt approaches to a prefix, viz- » *1^ 
TtZ'J'J: = f^i-iura-io wait along time. WeaUel^ 
w rare in the Galla; and 
is quoted = downwards^ and 
This Would nr V, instance; the i being dropped in 
^amclon verb did not begin irith 
c<>n8onant with which gadi ends. 
