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Show 185 almost entirely wanting, and is not replaced as elsewhere by 1; it occurs in randtsa, rand, pood, where Acoma has tantfe, Kiowa tii (- senau), and in the name of the people itself, ( Que'res, K6res,) which has probably been bestowed on it by other tribes. The terminations of words and syllables are not so vocalic as in Moqui and Isleta, and we often find them ending in - m, - n, - tch, - t. Mine is rendered by the prefixed s-, sa-, s h = ; va seems to be the negative particle. No distinct sign of a plural can be discovered. For phonetic differences between Que'res and Acoma see our table, p. 6, ( Epenthesis, & c.) There are many terms in Que'res congruing with equivalent Zuni words, viz : hatchtche, man ; Z i 6tsi, quiche^ atchi. . kue, woman ; Z : 6kia, 6kare; Teh: kui, kvi. h< 5pin, forehead; Z: h£ quin. stsiumi, arm ; Z : tchiitiove. sh= tsau- itch, mails; Z: shatintchiove. ishiane'- e, flesh, meat; Z: shile, yomatse, cold ; Z: tetse. tsina, turkey; Z : tdna. With the Apache dialects we find affinity in the terras for nose and hot, ( ka- atche, hot; Nav: khotsto,) with Moqui in Ac: ( uie^ tsia, small, little; Moq: tchai- o. Qu : ( sbka=) matchatchi, fingers; Moq: malatchi. Ac : shni; Qu: shu- ui, snake ; Moq: tchu- ash. The idiom of the nomadic Kiowas furnishes the greatest number of correspondencies also with this Pueblo family: ko, kuc, woman ; K: kiting, woman ; kd, mother. sh- kaui, neck ; K: k' oul; Utah: koloh, kuravh; Teh : k' - e*. hdaka, sky; K: ki £ ko. u£ ka, bark ; K : touko- i. shn- ui, snake; K: saoni. k ay& tauish, Ac: bird; K: kuatch. ko- otchioi, yellow; K : k6rta. zuffi. The Zufiis, who call themselves Shi- ou- i, possess a language built up mostly of polysyllabic stems, and entirely peculiar, though showing many words held in common by the Pueblo and other Indian languages of the southwest. Eaton's vocabulary will be found in Schoolcraft, vol. iv, p. 416- 431; Lieutenant Whipple's in Senate Doc. No. 78, Survey Pacific R. R., vol. iii, p. 91. The accent generally rests on the first syllable, which leads to the supposition that mauy of the appended endings are pronominal or other suffixes. In numerals, the quinary counting method obtains, and the numbers from 6 to 9 are formed out of 1 to 5 by adding likidt " the other," meaning evidently the fingers of the other hand. No other Pueblo follows this counting method, but we observe it also in Yuma, Gohon, and in Tonkawa, ( Texas.) All words and most syllables end in vowels; the parts of the bnman body generally terminate in- im,- tin,- qnin; the degrees of consanguinity in- i, ( - l i , - s h i ; ) the terms for implements in- li,- di; i being probably the prori. poss. mine. Adjectives, especially when designating colors, end in- ni,- ua. Observe the following significant groupings of words with similar endings: Plants: grass, ( and valley,) peVe; leaf, htfve; tree, taneaive; Indian corn, mive; ( feather,' lave.) Inorganic object*: rock, stone, aVe; water, kiave; land, s6vi; salt, m& ve. For corresponding terms in the Pueblo, Kiowa, and other languages, see supra. MOQUI. In spite of the isolated geographical location of the four inhabited Moqui mesas in the midst of an ocean of sand, rock, and dtbtis, and of the antiquity of these Moqui settlements, we can discover many points of resemblance between their idiom and those of the neighboring Indians, which prove an ancient intercommunication. Nasals are of frequent, d and I of scarce occurrence; / i s wanting. Sentences are negatived by means of the particle ka; the particie for the preterit is na. Personal pronouns precede the verb, which is not inflected, and the negative ka is inserted between the pronoun and the verb. Most words for colors, numerals, and consanguinity are peculiar t o the Moqui. The terms of animals and of some plants terminate in - e. The terms for parts of the human frame are not connected with the prououn mine, as they are in the other Pueblo idioms; and in this Moqui agrees not with Comauche, but with the eastern Shoshone languages. ~^, Baschmaun, who knew only the thirty words of Marcy's vocabulary, pointed out of their number five terms cognate with Sonora words, and five others occurring in Azteo, and directed attention to the termination - pe,- pi, in quape, kvapi, ( neck,) which, in Aztec, LL- 13 |