APPENDIX I. TO CHAPTER XX. 
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APPENDIX I. 
MASAI—COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY. 
Nouns. 
(The particle following the noun is the article, masculine, feminine, or neuter.) 
English. 
Masai. 
Latuka, Bari , 1 &c. 
Air 
Gijabe, eh 
Animal 
Jahito, ol 
Lat., Ecoii (Game). 
Ant 
Oisusu, ol; pi. Oisusun 
Antelope 
Guruk, ol 
Galau, eh ; pi. Galaun 
Anus 
Kurum, ol 
Duli, ol 
Ape(bahoon) 
Goroi, ol; pi. Goroin 
1 These are added for the purpose of comparison. The words 
given of Latuka are copied from Dr. Emin-Bey’s vocabularies, pub¬ 
lished in the Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Berlin, 1882. Dr. Friedrich 
Muller is my chief authority for Bari. The following are among the 
languages occasionally cited in this vocabulary :— 
Latuka and Bari , members of the Masai family. 
Dinka. 
Siluk 5 
Sidi > Siluk family. 
Lur 
Galla h 
B cmT^ f Ethiopic branch of Hamitic family. 
Woratta j 
Latuka is spoken in a somewhat small district nearly 5° N. latitude, 
to the east of the White Nile. 
Bari is the language of a slightly larger area on both banks of the 
White Nile round about Gondokoro. It borders on Latuka. 
Dinka is the name given to a large group of languages spoken about 
the junction of the White Nile and the Bahr al Ghazal, from 7° to 
9° 30' N. 
Siluk is the tongue of the negroes inhabiting the western hank of 
the White Nile from latitude 9° 30' to 11° N. 
