English-Bashgali Sentences. 
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685. My house is very far, but your Id amu biliuk gujr ess, tu amu 
house is very near. taward ass. 
686. In this village how many Ind bagrom ohoik amu assil ? 
houses are there ? 
687. My brother’s house is very 
dirty. 
688. 'How much ghi shall I bring P 
689. Why is that man howling ? 
690. I am very humble. 
691. In my country bulls have no 
hump. 
692. That hunch-backed man is the 
son of a mullah. 
693. Thanks to keeping the fast, I 
am very hungry , and have 
become very thin. 
694. The Mehtar has come to hunt 
(make sport). 
695. The doctor is clever and won’t 
hurt you. 
696. That woman says “ my hus¬ 
band is dead.” 
697. The Ibex are not here; they 
have gone to the high hills. 
698. I have seen no ice anywhere 
this year. 
699. I have an idea that this year 
there will be much heat in 
summer. 
700. Thou art idle ; this is not time 
for sleep. 
701. From excessive laziness thou 
hast become an idiot. 
Id bra amu biluah mul ess. 
Chok ano awelom ? 
Ikm manchi kai dugd cha witt t 
Ots bilugh drushti-wa assum. 
Id gul td ashe ku n’aiesht. 
Ikm wao mushtar mulld pitr ess. 
Pochetr ngutesth dugd , atta bissam: 
biluk dadr bissam. 
Mehar shurtr kusth duga aiyo. 
Tapip biliuk ushukul assid , tu ne 
bradzaott. 
Askd jugur gijji kuttd (i idst mosh 
mriss” kuttd* 
Mirishen am n’aiesth; at do td 
gwd. 
Ind se shie kor n'waridm * 
O woshtettam ind se wazdor biliuk 
tap bold. 
Tu yusk assish; ind wel pshu wel 
n'ess. 
Tu biliuk pshuik oss; aske duga 
tu charra bissish. 
* The last word of the sentence seems pleonastic: see also sentences Nos. 868, 
1055, 1081, 1177, 1422, 1423,1488, 1522. There are other sentences of similar con¬ 
struction (e.g„ 819, 930, 1356), in which this last word is not used. This is one of the 
many points on which the Kafirs, who were employed to translate, disagreed. 
