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Bashgali Grammar. 
[23— 
C Mil burl, wet (uncooked) bread. 
Ml bhlm, wet ground. < Mia yus, wet (green) grass. 
[.zhila dar, wet (green) wood. 
The following instances are contrary to the above rule :— 
bra shingord assd, the brother is handsome. 
ushp shigil assd, the horse is fast. 
Possibly the rule, as in Khowar, is that males are Masculine and natural 
females Feminine, and all others Neuter, but, whatever rule may be made 
out, there appear examples to show that it is not regularly followed. 
23. Khan Sahib Abdul Hakim Khan has obliged me with translations 
of the following thirteen sentences to test the existence of inflections 
of Adjectives to agree with Substantives. Certain Adjectives which I 
found to end in Ir in the Nominative Masculine Singular, end, in his 
translation, in era ; and the word cil, big, is rendered by him as ola* 
Words like kazhera, when used to qualify Nouns naturally feminine 
(such as cow, mare), generally change their termination in these examples 
into i, but all other Adjectives ending in n, a, k, undergo no change. 
Thy beard is white, 
My hair is white, 
My daughter is not pretty, 
My bull is white, 
My cow is white, 
My mare is white, 
My horse is white, 
Our horses are all white, 
Take the saddles off all the 
white horses, 
All your horses are very fat, 
That little girl is very dirty, 
That big boy is dirty, 
All our mares are very fat, 
tus dari kazhera assa. 
ista dru kazhera assa. 
ista ju vizheri n'aza. 
nj 
ista azhe kazhera assa. 
ista gd kazheri assa. 
zv _ 
ista ishtri ushpa kazheri assa. 
ru 
ista ushpa kazhera assa. 
imdsta ushpa sundi kazhera ashta. 
sundi kazhera ushpa, da zina 
waksha. 
shasta sundi ushpa biliuk karta 
ashta. 
aske parmenstuk juk biliuk mulchun 
bissa. 
aske ola dri mulchun azia. • 
imdsta sundi ishtri ushpa biliuk 
karta ashta. 
* If he is right, a portion of my para. 22 is wrong. In Sir G. Robertson’s 
manuscript collection there are many adjectives ending in l , m, n, r, as ka&hir, 
shatram , damttil, etc. 
