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TILE XILIMA -NJA B 0 EXPEDITION 
Ill the sex-denoting Hamitic, Semitic, and Aryan 
tongues this concord, imperfectly as it is now repre¬ 
sented, once existed, though the sex-denoting particles 
were generally added to the termination of the word 
instead of preceding it. 
Thus in Galla (Hamitic) they say— 
Niti hi eti oboleti-si ilal ti isi warn te. 
Woman poor sister her saw (and) her called. 
= The poor woman saw her sister and called her. 
In this case the syllable ti , which has a feminine 
signification, and isi, its variant, run through all the 
words dependent on the governing noun. 
In Hottentot 9 almost the same thing presents itself 
(I quote from Bleek’s Grammar):— 
//Na-taraoh', sida !hau-s-di-A, /nl !a-s-!na //an-ha-fo', ho-fo- 
Those women our tribe’s they, another village in dwelling find them 
da-ra, gare-da-ra goma-n a-fe. 
we do, praise we do cattle of them. 
= The women of our tribe who live in that village, we find them, 
we praise their cattle. 
In Arabic (Semitic) much the same concord is 
present as in Galla. Thus, to use the same phrase we 
might say :— 
l^- v L> O ^ 1 l .AM I 
Al-imraf masking liaiat u yt-ha wa nad at-lia. 
The poor woman saw her sister and called her. 
In many of the Aryan tongues the concord is 
exhibited by more or less uniform terminations of words 
according to gender, which are usually constant in 
their operation. 1 We most of us can call to mind the 
9 The Hottentot is a sex-denoting language, but I do not imply 
that it is necessarily related to the Hamitic tongues. 
1 Such as in Latin where the vowel “a” is particularly characteristic 
of the final terminations of feminine nouns, and reappears in most of 
